There is a year zero. Calendars serve humans. Humans don't serve the calendar. The one who orginally finished the gregorian calendar is wrong. This is the twenty-first century so we can fix it now. The year zero is 0 BC and 0 AD. The year zero is in the first century BC and the first century AD. So here is an example 99 BC -0 BC and 0 AD-99 AD. Somebody could add zero in the gregrioan caledandar. They changed the Julian Calendar. So why not change the gregorian calendar. I go with the calendar that reconize zero as a year. 2000 is the twenty-first century not the 20th century. The first two digits should never match the century. This equation is incorrect 2000 BC - 2000 AD would be 4,001 years. If you do the math it is 4,000 years. If you had a time machine you could travel to the year zero. Every number has a year, no expections. Basically the one who created the Gregorian calendar made a mistake. Either he didn't know about zero or refuse to use a zero.
2006-06-28 18:55:19 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Okay, I just have to wonder, seriously, what's the difference now? Calendars are simply tools for humans to measure our man-made construct of time. In reality, there is no time.
2006-06-28 19:08:40 · answer #1 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ahhhhhhhh, the joys of pitting theoretical mathematics against categorical human reality.
Let me offer this alternative point of view - let's use the most politically correct terms BCE (Before Common Era) for BC and CE (Common Era) for AD. The year 1 BCE counts down to the very end... at "12 midight on New Year's Eve / Day" (just to make things easy), the year 1 BCE ends and the first year of the common era, or 1 CE begins. In this case, there is no year 0.
And on the other hand, maybe I just completely agreed with you and said it a different way. This is what I get for trying to think so hard this late in the evening.
2006-06-29 02:12:58 · answer #2 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is that they used the Latin numeral system which has no zero. It would cause too much trouble to change things now. Think of all the millions of books that would have to be re-printed. Best to leave things as is. Beside, why have BC and AD, then. Many cultures (Jewish,Muslim,Hindu) don't start their timelines according to the Christian timeline.
2006-06-29 07:06:00 · answer #3 · answered by bigturq 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is funny that you get so worked up about something that happened 2000 years ago when every night the clock goes from 12 to 1 skipping zero and you don't care. find something new to think about.
2006-06-29 05:10:51 · answer #4 · answered by dagostyle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I don't !!
There was no Year 0. At the midnight of 1 B.C., the first year of A.D. or that means 1 A.D. started.
2006-06-29 02:07:51 · answer #5 · answered by young_friend 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answerer number one is freakin hilarious.
I get the year zero, but really you shouldn't freak on it.
Technically we should all change how old we are too.
When you turn one - you are just finishing year one. You should be called two because you are starting year two.
Although, that would make me 35 instead of 34............. I dunno if that's so good.
2006-06-29 02:00:51 · answer #6 · answered by ruletheworld 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I too would like my two minutes back. Get a hobby flying a kite or something, ok buuuddy!!!!
2006-06-29 02:05:26 · answer #7 · answered by NEMESIS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They know about zero otherwise they cant use 10,20,---100,,,1000,,,2000and so on.They refuse to use zero.
2006-06-29 02:00:32 · answer #8 · answered by Mehbooba 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can I have the two mintues of my life back for reading your post?
2006-06-29 01:57:31 · answer #9 · answered by whajd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I agree, but I think its funny seening how much you got into this...
2006-06-29 01:58:50 · answer #10 · answered by WTF 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋