Re: Lunar dates

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 20:02:51 +0100 (BST)


Peter Metcalfe retorts that the Lunar Calendar:
> IMO it is not as screwy as living by a calender which bases the
> central date on the birth of a culture-hero but misdates the same
> event wrong by at least four years!

And what's worse, has no "Year 0" for even this notional central date, skipping blithely from "-1" to "1"...

Slainte,
Alex.


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