At 12:48 PM -0400 3/22/07, David W. Fenton wrote:
[not sure what happened here]
> No, no, no! It's much more like the discussion
... the discussion of whether 2000 or 2001 was the first year of the
21st century. It's all about whether you're thinking 0-based counting
or 1-based.
Yes, you're right, it is. And I certainly don't want to reopen THAT
discussion, but I will briefly point out that the Christian calendar
is not and never has been a construct designed by mathematicians and
logic-driven. It is simply a King List, which is how people kept
track of the years back then (and even further back, with the
Egyptian Dynastic lists). Only it's a king list with only a single
king, and with no terminus. Anything beyond that strikes me as
wishful thinking, since the date of New Year has been all over the
map without triggering cries of outrage against logic, and since Pope
Gregory thought nothing about removing--what was it, 10
days?--arbitrarily from the calendar in the 16th century.
John
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