> > From: > "Juan Buhler" > The original claim by Tom was "The fact that really the entire world > bases their > calendar on the birth of this one man has some power behind it " > > So I was referring to the calendar. As such, and as you correctly > state, our calendar is pretty much the one Julius Cesar adopted. It > would make sense that the Catholic church, as the natural evolution of > the Roman Empire, would keep its calendar. It would also make sense > that they would number the years after the birth of their god, but > this didn't change the *calendar*.
They did change the calendar quite a bit, eliminating leap days and altering the number of days in the months. They also moved the year around to put January 1st back near the winter solstice. And they dropped 45 years off, since 1582 in the Gregorian calendar was 1627 by the Julian calendar [adopted in 46 BC]. Besides, counting in years "AD" didn't start until the 6th century. AFAIK, "BC" doesn't appear in Roman church calendar at all, since "Before Christ" is English, not Latin. The latin would be something like AAD - Ante Anno Domini. . -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
