Matthias wrote:
> >I can't understand this. I beginn to count with zero. The person who was
> >born at the 01.01.0000 should have his 2000th birthday on the 01.01.2000.
> >When I have my 30th birthday, my 31th year of live and so my fourth decade
> >beginns. Can anyone explain this to me ?
> >Matthias
"Officially" the Christian nativity was 25 Dec, 1 BC. The next year
was numbered 1 AD. No zero in between (Zero wasn't inveted yet!).
If you want to get technical, the monks who calculated the start of
the Christian calendar got it wrong---it should have started five or
so years earlier. I'm not a Xtian so I'll leave it to others to name
names.
There's an nice detailed flamewar going on in news:aus.tv if you want
to know more. Subject is "media and the millenium".
Richard Ross wrote:
> However, this doesn't take into
> account the fifteen (?) days or so that disappeared when the calendar was
> "corrected" in whenever it was.
Yes it does. Those skipped days were to correct the error introduced
by having TOO MANY leap years in the preceding 17 and a bit centuries.
So now we're back on track, will having had exactly 2000 solar years from
1/1/0001 to 1/1/2001.
cjb.
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