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Re: Ebisedian number system (I)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, July 18, 2002, 0:44
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.) -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)