From: mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner)
Subject: Re: 5th USENIX Conf on Object-Oriented Tech & Sys (COOTS'99) - CFP
Date: 1998/05/17
Date: 1998-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6jld5o$c7d@top.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2iun6mh2r.fsf@wf-rch.cirr.com
> ... we went straight from 1 BC to 1 AD
No. Both systems were invented quite a bit later.
The year 1 BC is simply a different system representation for 0 AD.
Similarly, 1 AD is simply a different system representation for 0 BC.
It is arbitrary (and not mathematically useful) to hold that the
millenium began in 1 AD instead of 0 AD. The people who experienced
that millenial change did not change their calendars at all.
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1998-05-13 0:00 5th USENIX Conf on Object-Oriented Tech & Sys (COOTS'99) - CFP Jackson Dodd
1998-05-14 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-05-15 0:00 ` Stephen.Leake
1998-05-16 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-05-16 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-05-17 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner [this message]
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1998-05-18 0:00 Anonymous
1998-05-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-05-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-05-19 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1998-05-22 0:00 ` Stephen.Leake
1998-05-18 0:00 Anonymous
1998-05-26 0:00 Anonymous
1998-05-26 0:00 Anonymous
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