Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: OT: Was there ever a year zero, and if not...?

dphoadley opened this issue on Jan 01, 2010 · 64 posts


Penguinisto posted Sat, 02 January 2010 at 6:00 PM

Heh.

* The funny part is, the true counting of AD ("Anno Domini", or "In the year of Our Lord") was goofed anyway, since Denis forgot that Augustus Caesar (long name: Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus) had ruled under a different name before becoming the emperor named at the time of Christ's birth, which sort of threw off the calculations by four years (Denis was counting up roman years by counting 'nth years of the reign of {insert emperor here}'. )

* Because everything is noted and timed (calendar-wise) fairly accurately for about 500+ years now, if we did correct for the goofs, historians would find it too messy to keep up, so don't expect any fixes any time soon.

* The Islamic calendar says we're in the year 1431 - the number of years since Mohamet moved from Medina to Mecca for good - a move called the Hijra. Thing here is, the Islamic calendar runs off a strict Lunar cycle... so it's always a few days shorter than our current Gregorian calendar. 

* All existing (and used) calendars are based on some event, almost always religious. Even the atheist/agnostic BCE/CE is still based on a presumption of when the birth of Jesus Christ occurred. The standard global civil calendar is known as the Gregorian Calendar, which was established by a Pope.