The Earth Calendar and Epoch Time – When Two Visions of Time Converge

To the Editorial Staff,

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:

Main site: https://earthcal.hyperlinker.org Side-by-side visualization: TEC and Epoch Time in sync: https://epoch.hyperlinker.org Complete APIs for developers and integrations:

    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