ANST - Picky? (was SCA Anniversary)

John Ruble jruble at urocor.com
Fri May 1 07:22:48 PDT 1998


> 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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