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- From: mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach)
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- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.211458.27896@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:14:58 GMT
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- From: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir")
- >In article <CC.92Nov17175024@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk writes:
- >>2000 Anno Domini ought to mean that it's 2000 years since Jesus Christ was
- >>born. When he was born, it was no *years* since he was born, therefore his
- >>first year of life was spent in AD 0, surely? His second year of life was
- >>therefore AD 1, and so on - so 2000 AD ought to be the start of the 21st
- >> century.
- >
- >It depends on whether you feel the first year was year 0 or year 1
-
- There was no AD 0. When the BC/AD system was defined, people
- didn't have the concept of '0', so the years go straight from 1
- BC to 1 AD. Check it up in any book of, say, Ancient Roman
- history. You won't find anything listed as going on in year 0.
-
- Matthew Huntbach
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