People Can't Even Agree on When the Decade Ends

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Post by tkelemen » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 5:31 AM UTC

People Can't Even Agree on When the Decade Ends
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Re: People Can't Even Agree on When the Decade Ends

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Post by garmaine » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 5:40 AM UTC

We should retroactively go back and adjust the BCE dates by one to include year zero.

Re: People Can't Even Agree on When the Decade Ends

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Post by Aeronwen » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 10:25 AM UTC

garmaine wrote: post #2

We should retroactively go back and adjust the BCE dates by one to include year zero.

If you go the other way, you only have to change 2020 years worth of dates instead of 14 billion.

Just sayin.

Re: People Can't Even Agree on When the Decade Ends

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Post by garmaine » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 10:55 AM UTC

Aeronwen wrote: post #3

garmaine wrote: post #2

We should retroactively go back and adjust the BCE dates by one to include year zero.

If you go the other way, you only have to change 2020 years worth of dates instead of 14 billion. Just sayin.

But most dates BCE have more than one year of uncertainty in them.

Re: People Can't Even Agree on When the Decade Ends

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Post by Aeronwen » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 11:39 AM UTC

garmaine wrote: post #4

Aeronwen wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go the other way, you only have to change 2020 years worth of dates instead of 14 billion. Just sayin.

But most dates BCE have more than one year of uncertainty in them.

I know. Even the event the calendar's epoch is supposed to be based on is off by at least 4 years.