[Northkeep] Too cool date thing

[Angus Mac]

What year is it on the Chinese calendar???

Angus
----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com>
To: <northkeep at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Too cool date thing


> >From: Istvan Temesvari <istvan at micahtek.com>
> >After thinking about this for a while (I am interested in numbers and
> >patterns), I discovered a few things. It has actually happened two >other
> >times before:
> >11:11 AM, November 11, 1111 AD
> >1:10 AM, October 1, 110 AD (if you pad with zeros)
>
> Unfortunately there was no 110 AD.  The "Anno Domini" year scheme was not
> established until the 500s by Dionysius Exiguus.  Unfortunately, the
> assumption that these are the only times this could have happened are
> somewhat Eurocentric -- there ARE other dating systems.
>
> M/D
>
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