From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Fri Dec 10 1999 - 23:39:49 MST
> Zeb Haradon wrote: So there was no year 0? it goes from 1BC to 1AD?
Ja. But I propose we declare one. The year 1 BC would be declared
the year 0. The years 0 to 99 would then be called the zeroeth century,
the years 0 to 9 would be the zeroeth decade, and so on, so that we
would be entering the zeroeth year of the second millennium in a three weeks,
and the yahoos need not argue about when the new millennium starts.
That would fix a problem that has made me crazy since always: the history
scholars refer to the 16th century meaning the 1500s. Then ya gotta think:
lessee, is that the 1500s or the 1700s? Oh yeah, OK. The 1500s *should*
be the 15th century, dammit! {8^D
The only thing that would be messed up are the BC dates, but we would
get over that. Herod perished in 3 BC by the new reckons. But it would
be a better, more logical system. spike
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