Re: Concalendrical reference point

John Cowan
> And Rosta scripsit:
>
> > This is an unsolved problem of longstanding for Livagian reckoning too.
> > On the one hand, naming years by numbers is a method of great utility
> > in calculating the time distance between two years, but on the other
> > hand the issue of where to locate year 1 is a troublingly arbitrary
> > one, for which no decent candidate has yet emerged in my thinking.
>
> Another possibility is to use the Gethenian calendar style (from
> Le Guin's _The Left Hand of Darkness_): the current year is always
> numbered 1.
I thought of that, but it would be incredibly difficult to remember
when things happened. Instead of remembering their date, we'd have
to keep track of how long ago they happened. My mind just doesn't
work that way. For example, when I need to say how old I am (or
family and friends), I always have to work out the time elapsed
from my DoB to the present. But when asked my DoB I never have
to subtract my current age from the current date.

--And.