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Article #335Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century.
From: lan... Howard A. Landman x61391
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 00:56
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 00:56
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>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. In article <4065@convex.UUCP> jjensen@convex.UUCP (James Jensen) writes: >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.) Bad assumption. Jesus was invented sometime between what we now call 1 AD and 200 AD. (First written records referring to him occur around 200 to 300 AD, and the Dead Sea scrolls show that some things attributed to Jesus were actually borrowed from earlier sources.) Even those who believe in his literal existence now agree that the monk who first calculated his birthdate got it wrong, and that he was most likely born in 4 AD. So our present calendar is based on a mideival miscalculation. Howard A. Landman landman...@eng.sun.com
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!shelby!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!hanami!landman From: lan...@hanami.Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman x61391) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century. Message-ID: <129456@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 20 Dec 89 00:56:30 GMT References: <18494@bellcore.bellcore.com> <552@enea.se> <8483@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1468@skye.ed.ac.uk> <4065@convex.UUCP> Sender: ne...@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman x61391) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 18 Posted: Wed Dec 20 01:56:30 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit