Re: Ebisedian number system (I)

Christian Thalmann scripsit:

> Not at all.  Just call the year in which Christ was born the year
> 0 AD = 0 BC, then we'd have no problem.  The year 100 BC would be
> -100 AD, and distances between the systems would be consistent.
People who actually care about this stuff relabel the BCE years by
one:  1 BCE = 0, 2 BCE = -1, 3 BCE = -2, etc.  This is the convention of
ISO 8601, the standard for designating Gregorian dates and times.
(XML Schema implements this buggily, equating -1 with 1 BCE, and
leaving out 0 altogether.)

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