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There's another gotcha. There is no year 0 CE. It goes straight from -1 to 1. That's going to be a problem for zero-based counting!
by kijin 7y ago
There's another gotcha. There is no year 0 CE. It goes straight from -1 to 1. That's going to be a problem for zero-based counting!
- OscarCunningham 7y agoIt doesn't go from -1 to 1, it goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE. Negatives aren't used at all. Personally I think we should use zero and negative CE to extend backwards instead. So the year we currently refer to as 1 BCE becomes 0 CE, 2 BCE becomes -1 CE and N BCE becomes -N+1 CE.
- maxdamantus 7y agoLike this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering