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Subject:Re: What to call the Next Decade From:Chris Hulin <chrish -at- SPIDERNET -dot- COM -dot- CY> Date:Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:21:50 +0300
David Blyth wrote...
>0 is either AD or BC. "1" is AD.
No. There was no year zero. 1 AD followed 1 BC. (and Jesus was born in about
7 BC!) The only year zero was in Cambodia, when Pol Pot stopped history and
restarted it again at zero - that's what programmers call initializing the
history file.
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