On 2002-12-06 at 17:59:33, Larry Wall wrote: > Now all we have to do is > convince everyone that the year 1 B.C. is the same as year 0 A.D., > and 2 B.C. is the same as -1 A.D., and so on. Well, since that's already true, it hopefully won't take much convincing. :) If you mean to convince the general public to actually *use* 0 and negative years AD instead of BC, though, that'll take some doing. (Astronomers do that already, but they don't count as the general public; they're more a specific public.) :)
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