Re: Yawn....err...Happy...uh...Millennium....or something...?

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 13:09:27 -0600 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
> > Point out the officially recognized year zero, if you can.
> In *any* Western (and most other civilizations) chronology.  When
> does a
> month begin?  Day 1, not Day 0, what's January when giving dates in
> short form?  Month 1, not 0 (the first day of the year is 1/1, not
> 0/0).  And in 12-hour time, there's no 0 hour, it starts with 1.  Of
> course, 24-hour time starts with 0.
> Also, the Mayans used 0 in their calendar.
>
> --
.

So do the Rokbeigalm.
Right now, in the year-numbering _nga'aoledh-a tza'lesna-a
rokbeigalmki-a_ (Ao''Le''Ro for short), "since the creation of the
rokbeigalmki language" which i use in order to be able to name dates in
RL even though the Rokbeigalm live in Tolkien's
mythic-prehistoric-semi.alternate.universe Middle Earth, it's the year 3.
 The Ao''Le''Ro itself occured in early June, 1997, and the Year 1 began
a few weeks later at the Southern Hemisphere Winter Solstice, making the
year of the Ao''Le''Ro (defined as the day i began writing down the
Rokbeigalmki wordlist) the year 0.

I wonder if other concalendars have years 0...


-Stephen (Steg)
 "That which you cannot grasp, but can taste in every drop, That is the
Real."