Re: The year dot (was: Ebisedian number system)

>Christian Chirped:
>I was under the impression that the
>peculiarity of the time system was due to the Church not liking
>the thought of Christ being born in the year naught. At least
>that was my mother's guess when I asked her about that many years
>ago. ;-)
>Barbara Babbles;
>There's no "0" year for the same reason there's no "zero egg" in a
>carton of half a dozen.
Nihil Natters:

Yes but there is a 0000 in the 24-hour clock. Wouldn't make sense if 0130 to
0230 was one hour, but 2330 to 0030 was 59 minutes, due to the lack of a
"minute zero".
More so if it's a positive-negative system, the years BC being "negative"
and running in the opposite direction (number gets higher as you move back).
Not having a year zero is odd.

BTW, JC was born in about 4 BC wasn't he?

NS

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