Re: Times & Dates

From: Dylan Sung (dylanwhs.tsktsktsk_at_pacific.net.hk)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:10:40 -0000

"Wolfgang G. Gasser" <siehe@homepage.li> wrote in message
news:cufgma$mkv$1@atlas.ip-plus.net...
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>> Wolfgang G. Gasser wrote:
>>
>> > A simple internationally accepted calendar time NOT based on TIME ZONES
>> > could be advantageous in several respects.
>> >
>> > Main requirements for such a calendar are:
>> >
>> > 1) Internal simplicity
>> > 2) Independence of religions and cultures
>> > 3) A clear relation to the most widespread calendar
[snip]
>>
>> Why would you base your "new calendar" on a miscalculation of the year
>> of the birth of Jesus?
>>
>> Why don't you start with the new Maya era, which begins in 2012?
>
> We need a clear and SIMPLE RELATION to the most widespread calendar
> which is obviously based on "a miscalculation of the year of the birth
> of Jesus":
>
[snip]
> 1 --> n8001 ...
> 0 --> n8000 ...
> -1 --> n7999 ...
>
> The most probable years of the birth of Jesus are n7993 - 7997 in the
> new calendar, all of which aren't special numbers such as e.g. zero,
> one or thousand.

There is no year 0, as you mention further down in your reply,

> ... And we should not forget that originally
> there was no year zero, ....

The above not withstanding, the correlation you propose is just an arbitrary
number to be added on to the 'western' calendar year.

What makes you think this arbitrary number is going to any more useful than
the current usage? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Dyl.

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