ANST - Picky? (was SCA Anniversary)

Gregory R. Gagnon cian at ghg.net
Fri May 1 19:29:45 PDT 1998


Since so many other holidays have been adjusted for convenience let's move this
one, too.  I think April 1st is the most historically defensible.

Cian


|> Lionardo said:
|> On Fri, 1 May 1998 05:47:36 -0700 (PDT), Ld. Edrei the Quiet wrote:
|>
|> >Maybe I'm just being picky (or maybe I'm confused), but if we were
|> >founded in 1966 (aka AS I), wouldn't this be our 32nd Anniversary and
|> >beginning our 33rd year?
|>
|> Well, let's see, since May 1 is the birthday that would make this the
|> societies 32nd year b-day (I was born in '66 and will be 32 in
|> November.) Now, since there was not an AS 0 (like we all had a 0 year
|> where we were so many months old) then we have to add 1 to come up
|> with the calendar year, ergo AS 33. Make any sense?
|>
|May 1st, 1966, was the start of Year One of the Society, not year zero.  May
|1st, 1968 was the start of Year Three.  This is the start of Year
|Thirty-three.
|
|Blame the Babylonian bean-counters for giving us that darn Zero thing...
|
|Ulf
|...having a multi-threaded flash back...


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