[Ansteorra] 1 May 37 AS

[Padraig O'Maolagain]

It's actually the same reasoning in both cases:  the first year of Anno Domini is calculated from the year 1, the first year of Anno Societatis is calculated from the year 1.  So we are in the year 2002, or the the two thousand and second year since the birth of Christ (officially, anyway - never mind the miscalculations and caledar reforms that result in Jesus having been born between 3 and 7 years before the year we count from), and in year 37 of the Society, or the thirty-seventh year after the beginning of the SCA.

Pádraig

Aethelyan wrote:

>2001, because when you count to ten, you don't stop at 9, you stop at 10.
>Therefore, a multiple of ten ends with a zero. Therefore, the 20th century
>ends in 2000, being a multiple of ten years.
>
>However, since we began numbering Anno Societatis with Year 1 in 1966, it is
>now A.S. XXXVII. It doesn't follow the same rule. I guess we're numbering
>like the (I believe) Chinese do, counting from the first year of existence
>being Year 1.
>
>Aethelyan Moondragon
>Bryn Gwlad
>
>
>Okay, is this one of those 'New Math' problems like "When EXACTLY did this
>new millenium start?"
>BTW, what IS the answer, 2000 or 2001?!? %)
>
>Olivia
>---
>Carpe Diem Ex Illo Vitae Opprime!





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