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Reminds me of the Holocene Calendar, which argues for setting the year 0 ten thousand years earlier to include all of major human history. So instead of writing 02022 AD it would become 12022 HE, for Human Era. It would mean to update these date libraries fast though...

An episode of kurzgesagt about this topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=czgOWmtGVGs




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