I am an Italian researcher and creator. Thirty years ago, I designed a new calendar system—The Earth Calendar—with its Year Zero set to 1969, marking humanity's first steps on the Moon and the dawn of the Internet.
Its weekdays are named after fundamental elements: Moonday, Atomday, Waterday, Winday, Fireday, Earthday, and Sunday. Today, for instance, is Atomday 13, first month, Year 57, of the Atom.
One of its key features is its synchrony with the Unix Epoch.
After three decades of use, publications and refinement, I am now releasing it as an open standard for anyone to adopt, build upon, or integrate.
You can explore the calendar, its structure, and its rationale here:
I am writing to present an extraordinary temporal convergence, born from an intuition thirty years ago and more relevant today than ever.
The Genesis: Internet and the Need for a New Time
When the Internet became accessible to everyone, I perceived that the world had radically changed. The conventional calendar, with its ancient roots and inconsistencies, was no longer adequate to represent this new global, interconnected, spatial era.
Thus was born The Earth Calendar (TEC): a temporal system that I have used daily ever since, having set aside the old calendar—though TEC coexists perfectly with it—with notable practical and philosophical benefits.
The Surprising Discovery: TEC and Epoch Time
A few years ago, I realized an extraordinary synchrony: The Earth Calendar is in perfect harmony with Epoch Time (Unix time).
Epoch Time defines 1970 as year 1 (the "zero second" of computing)
The Earth Calendar declares 1969 as year 0 (first Moon landing + birth of the Internet)
In practice, the reckoning of time coincides! Without any planning, two independent systems—one humanistic-philosophical, the other computational-technological—have identified the same epochal turning point.
The Crucial Difference
While Epoch Time is comprehensible only to machines (counting seconds that are meaningless to us humans), The Earth Calendar is perfectly usable by human beings, just like the old calendar. Moreover, compared to Epoch Time, it has many distinctive features:
Renewed week with names inspired by elements and soul powers
Seven-year cycles (Septennia) that replicate weekly rhythms on a long scale
Celebrations of dates of global value and anniversaries of the events that launched the New Era
Daily human powers for personal development
The Platform Now Available
In addition to the original site (active for almost thirty years), I present today an integrated new platform:
https://tec-date.earthcal.hyperlinker.org (date conversion)
https://septennium.earthcal.hyperlinker.org (7-year calculations)
https://powers.earthcal.hyperlinker.org (daily human powers)
Why It Is Relevant Today
In an era of:
Global digital transition
Planetary environmental crisis
Search for universal meanings
Overlap between physical and digital
The Earth Calendar offers:
A bridge between technology and humanism
A truly global temporal system
Tools for conscious personal development
An integrated vision of our place in the cosmos
Materials Available
Complete website with a book containing philosophical explanations and an example almanac
Documented APIs for software integrations
Historical resources on the thirty-year development
Practical examples of daily use
For Contacts and Further Information
HyperLinker, aka Danilo D'Antonio
Email: dda@hyperlinker.org
Documentation: Available on the individual API endpoints
You can determine right away whether your Country is genuinely democratic or merely pretends to be.
If your Republic (res publica in the ancient tongue) is the shared property of its citizens, who alternate as equal partners through a Public Jobs Bank, then yes! Your Country is truly democratic, and everything works wonderfully for you.
But if the Republic is held captive, possessed by a caste of Lifelong Oligarchs—hired-for-life employees, a closed congregation of bureaucrats and careerists—true monarchs, in effect—well: where is the Democracy in that? Where is the periodic renewal of personnel in public roles (as mandated by Democracy without exception) that gives rise to true citizen participation?
It remains the old monarchical state: lopsided, crooked, and rigid, where the fortunate continually prosper and the disadvantaged constantly suffer. It is the old tyrant state that has unduly persisted due to a continued abuse of power by the Republic's own jailers.
In such a Country, it doesn't matter if the governments keep changing. If the Republic (the public offices, institutions, jobs, powers, and incomes) are perpetually controlled by the same people for as long as they live, there will never be equality, justice, or freedom.
Dear Coders, Cypherpunks, Crypto-warriors, and Builders of the Future... don't you think it's time to stop ignoring all this? Can one ever truly enjoy freedom by perpetually hiding behind encryption?
Do not play solely on the defense. If our societies still suffer from the legacy of a tyrannical past, it falls to us—the zealous lovers of liberty—to conceive a new center of power that is worthy of our time, and equal to the measure of our hunger for freedom.
Then... let us begin re-coding our Republics!
D. D'Antonio, originator of
Harmonic Social Rotation (HSR)
Laboratorio Eudemonia
Lifetime employment in the public sector is a practice rooted in pre-democratic times, when power was the immutable prerogative of a closed caste. This practice has survived to this day due to politicians equally determined to perpetuate their power for life. Public employees hired for life and rulers elected for life have deliberately concealed the co-ownership nature of every public position. Such roles cannot be permanently assigned or enjoyed without becoming private property, resulting in a definitive loss for contemporaries. This system has denied many citizens, with equal rights and professional qualifications, the opportunity to participate in the management of common assets.
The result is an immutable, rigid, and oppressive system that has always been suffered, failing to respond properly to life’s necessities or adapt to its continuous and often unpredictable changes. This inadequacy leads to prolonged frustration and, ultimately, violent reactions. Inequality, despotism, and inefficiency generate distrust in institutions and democracy itself, which is effectively murdered by the ancient practice of permanently holding power.
To leave behind the era of tyranny and establish a true Republic, we propose the creation of a Public Jobs Bank (PJB)—an institution designed to manage and regularly redistribute every public position. It will ensure continuous renewal of public structures through a digital platform. The PJB establishes an open, fluid, proactive, and adaptable system.
Goals of the PJB:
Fair redistribution of public roles, based on candidates selected over time for skills, merits, and needs.
Collective participation in the management of public assets, by an osmotic process that creates community and accountability.
Functionality and adaptability of the public sector, enabling quick responses to crises and economic or social changes.
Legal Foundation of the PJB
The idea of the PJB is rooted in a solid legal foundation anchored in the principle of co-ownership of public goods (res publica) by citizens. Each public position, as common property, cannot be permanently assigned to a segment of the population, depriving others of the opportunity to access it. A system that treats public goods as private property violates the principle of common ownership and transforms what is public into private. The PJB is designed to eliminate this illegality and affirm the public and shared nature of all roles within the central structure.
To realize this vision (so long after the emergence of the many 'republics' on Earth!), we propose the creation of a prototype PJB. This prototype will be developed by a new Institution based on the model known as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). This approach effectively utilizes blockchain technologies and artificial intelligence tools to achieve:
Democratic Management: Decisions are made through distributed voting, ensuring equal participation and representation.
Resource Dynamics: Smart contracts manage documented assignments of public roles.
Economic Incentives: Internal tokens reward contributors to the system, ensuring its growth and sustainability.
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the PJB will leverage advanced algorithms to analyze and optimize the assignment of roles, continuously adapting to societal needs and fulfilling the legitimate desires of participants. AI will ensure fairness, identify inefficiencies, and provide data-driven insights for the continuous improvement of the system.
Short-Term Goals
Launch a public awareness campaign to attract necessary institutional support.
Create a community of developers, independent of existing pseudo-public structures.
Develop a functional prototype of the PJB managed as a DAO.
Test the system within restricted areas to verify its effectiveness.
I am an Italian researcher and creator. Thirty years ago, I designed a new calendar system—The Earth Calendar—with its Year Zero set to 1969, marking humanity's first steps on the Moon and the dawn of the Internet.
Its weekdays are named after fundamental elements: Moonday, Atomday, Waterday, Winday, Fireday, Earthday, and Sunday. Today, for instance, is Atomday 13, first month, Year 57, of the Atom.
One of its key features is its synchrony with the Unix Epoch.
After three decades of use, publications and refinement, I am now releasing it as an open standard for anyone to adopt, build upon, or integrate.
You can explore the calendar, its structure, and its rationale here:
https://hyperlinker.org/tec/dt/
I welcome thoughts, feedback, or collaboration from anyone.
Best regards,
Danilo D'Antonio (Hyper Linker)