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In article <10...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> ken...@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Stephen P. Kendall) writes:
>In article <4065@convex.UUCP> jjensen@convex.UUCP (James Jensen) writes:
>>In article <14...@skye.ed.ac.uk> rbk@aiai.UUCP (Richard Kirby) writes:
>>>Jesus, was born. 1 A.D was when he was 1 year old, and starting his 2nd year
>>Bad Assumption.  Year numbering was started before zero was invented.  
>>Thus the first year Jesus was alive was 1 AD. (The first year of our 
>>lord.)
>Worse assumption.  Jesus was born (according to most historians, religious
>AND secular) somewhere around 3 B.C., and almost certainly not in December.

You're also assuming that there ever was such as person as "Jesus".
That is by no means a universally-accepted fact.  Even if the Jesus-
myth refers to an historical person, that's irrelevant to a discussion
of the calendar system.

The calendar is 1-origin.  There is no year 0.  Therefore, centuries
technically begin with the year xxx1, and end in the year <xxx+1>0.

In the popular mind, however, the next century will start in the year
2000, and people will undoubtably consider 2000 to be more
"significant" a year than 2001.

Yet another example of popular demand overriding science.

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