"It is noteworthy to point out that in Spanish or English, there are no expressions of time that go any further than two days into the past or the future;"
I'll think about this more next week.
Maybe only slightly on topic, years ago I highly enjoyed this book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero:_The_Biography_of_a_Dange...
I always find these articles about highly visual subjects that don't show any images to be a little bit under-researched. The Maya language and numeral system is fascinating in part because of its visual beauty. Maya text and design elements are widely incorporated into architecture and media in the region, even today.
This article showed us none of that. Not even a single image of a zero.