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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: What's the date on the moon? really.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.001857.11271@unocal.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:18:57 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.115844.16821@pbs.org> <BtD4A9.6CE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug25.152539.27548@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
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- In article <1992Aug25.152539.27548@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
- >Back in July of 1989, the 20th Anniversary issue of the first lunar
- >landing, Omni included a clever little Universal Time calendar that
- >based all dates on July 20, 1969. It worked much like the B.C./A.D.
- >nomenclature that we use now, with 7/20/69 being the "zero date".
- >Interesting idea.
-
- The issue of a new zero year came up in sci.archeology where dates
- are often given in B.P. for Before Present. One doesn't have to add 2000 to BC
- dates. However, one needs to define a definite zero year for high resolution
- dating methods. Also, some people don't like chosing the zero year on the
- basis of some religous figure or founding of a nation.
- I propose defining 1950 as the zero year of the modern era.
- It is midway among the invention of the electronic computer, atomic power,
- and launching of a satellite. It is also close to the birth year of
- an important net personality :-)
-