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- From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
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- In article <1992Nov18.090506.2767@edscom.demon.co.uk> rpt@edscom.demon.co.uk (Richard Tomlinson) writes:
- >
- >How do you know there wasn't a year 0? I thought the system of counting years
- >since Christ, was adopted many years (centuries?) after he died - this is why
- >scholars believe Christ was born in 4BC. In that case, why not say there was
- >a year 0 just for convenience? After all, it is an entirely arbitrary system.
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- True, but we're stuck with it now, and I don't think historians would
- relish having to change every reference to the years before Christ.
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