Re: Concalendrical reference point

Tim May scripsit:

> Doesn't that make all documents mentioning dates become innacurate
> within a year?  Unless you either have no written records, or they're
> _all_ computerised and updated automatically, I can't see how this
> would work.
Yes.  They kludge around the problem with references to locally well-known
events ("two years before the earthquake"), king's regnal years, and so on.
But these are tricks used solely in documents, not in ordinary reckoning.
I agree it gets hard to remember dates if you have to keep updating your
memory, which is perhaps the purpose.

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