[78-L] ^Dates. Was: Story of the LP [personal] [addendum]

[Mike Harkin]

found another site, which said add AD to 753 and subtract BC for AUC.  Which is what I thought, tho' given my mathophobia I wasn't willing to bet on it.  FWIW.

M in P


--- On Tue, 12/2/08, William A Brent <bbrent at pipeline.com> wrote:

> From: William A Brent <bbrent at pipeline.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] ^Dates.  Was:   Story of the LP  [personal]
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at 78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 4:59 AM
> At 04:24 AM 12/2/2008, you wrote:
> >And the millenium started on 1 Jan 2001 -- unless the
> Catholic 
> >Church, which promulgated the calendar we now use had 
> a year Zero 
> >they didn't tell us about in parochial school....
> >
> >Mike in Plovdiv
> 
> true - there was no year 0 - BUT - Christ was most likely
> born in 5 
> BC, or there abouts, so the
> whole AD count is off set by the wrong date (this is
> actually 2013 AD).
> 
> but then again, I think they killed off AD when they axed
> Pluto.
> 
> 
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