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Human Era

EpochConfidence
1 January 9999 BCEExact

Overview

The Human Era, also known as the Holocene Era, is a Gregorian-based calendar proposed by Cesare Emiliani in 1993 CE. It is the representation of time since the beginning of the Holocene and the Neolithic Revolution, when humans started living in fixed agricultural settlements.

Info

The Human Era is an attempt to adapt the Gregorian calendar, which has become widespread enough that it could be considered the default calendar of the world, to an epoch that better encompasses human history. It chooses its epoch based on what may be the most significant moment in our ancient past: the time when humans first created civilization. Conventiently, this occurs roughly 10000 years before 1 AD, allowing for simple math to arrive at the converted date.

MonthsDays
January31
February28 or 29
March31
April30
May31
June30
July31
August31
September30
October31
November30
December31

Accuracy

As this calendar is only a proposal, there really isn't anything to compare it to historically. It is intrinsically based on and locked to the Gregorian calendar, making it perfectly accurate.

Source

All of the information on this calendar came from its Wikipedia article.