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It's not "crazy". No one care about which century X00 is. The term "century" doesn't have enough sig figs. X00 is "the turn of the century".
by lupire 4y ago
It's not "crazy". No one care about which century X00 is. The term "century" doesn't have enough sig figs. X00 is "the turn of the century".
- rcoveson 4y agoIf you don't care then sure, it's not crazy, but if you did care then believe me, it is crazy. Crazy enough that astronomers[0] and software engineers[1] rebelled against the historian's practice and renamed the years preceding 1 AD in the proleptic gregorian calendar year 0, year -1, year -2, et cetera. A major benefit of this is it allows the leap year pattern to stay consistent and the rule to remain legibile for all years, going back before 1 AD. It's also nice because it lets us say "the 90's were the last ten years of the 20th century" and be correct. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering 1. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/temporal/ChronoField.html#YEAR_OF_ERA https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/temporal...