[ANSTHRLD] Happy Birthday SCA - now Anno Societatus 40 (roman: XLI or XXXXI)

[JACQUELINE ZIEGLER]

On Mon, 1 May 2006 19:21:14 -0500 (CDT)
  tmcd at panix.com wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2006, Hillary Greenslade <hillaryrg at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The SCA still measures dates within the society from the date of
>> that party, calling the system Anno Societatis (Latin for "Year of
>> the Society"). For example, 1 May 2006-30 April 2007 is A.S.  XLI
>> (41).
> 
> Different people have different mnemonics -- some may go so far as to
> memorize the anno societatis.  I calculate A.S. quickly since 2000 as
>    last two digits of year plus 35,
>    and if the month is January-April, minus one.
> 
> E.g., 1 April 2006 was
>    06 + 35 - 1 = A.S. 40
> 3 May 2006 will be
>    06 + 35 = A.S. 41
> 
> (For all years since the First Party, the formula is
>    current year minus 1965,
>    and if the month is January-April, minus one more.
> )
> 
> Danet de Linccolne
>
And I just subtract 9 years from my age to find the A.S. year -
my birthday is May 1, and I turned 50 today.

Shauna