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by garmaine 2003 days ago
We should retroactively go back and adjust the BCE dates by one to include year zero.
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Aeronwen 2003 days ago
If you go the other way, you only have to change 2020 years worth of dates instead of 14 billion.

Just sayin.

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garmaine 2003 days ago
But most dates BCE have more than one year of uncertainty in them.
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Aeronwen 2003 days ago
I know. Even the event the calendar's epoch is supposed to be based on is off by at least 4 years.
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