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An interesting little bit of trivia: in Taiwan the years are still counted since the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party took power in China in 1911, making this year
by imrehg 13y ago
An interesting little bit of trivia: in Taiwan the years are still counted since the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party took power in China in 1911, making this year year 102, for example. Oh, and of course they mix it with the "western" years too. So e.g. my birth year of 1980 is occasionally written on documents as 1980, as 80, as 69. Hilarity ensues.
The parallel with Mussolini (ie. being far right as well) is not lost on me, though. Food for thought.
- cafard 13y agoAs your Emacs will show you (Meta-x calendar, then p f), the French Republic used a calendar beginning with the revolution. It would be hard to describe the First Republic as "far right". And I noticed on co-worker's diploma that Syracuse University gives the year both AD and from the founding of the republic--but whether counting that from independence or from the constitution I don't remember.