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tb5841 t1_jegullc wrote

You would think this, wouldn't you? Because that's how zero works in our number system.

In reality, there was no year 0. It just skips straight from 1BC to 1AD.

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Jump_Like_A_Willys t1_jegylm4 wrote

There was no year zero.

And there really wasn’t a year 1 AD through about year 524 AD that people living at those times kept track of. Those years were numbered after the fact by Dionysius in 525 AD. People living at during those times before that used various other ways of counting years (if they did at all), such as Roman emperor reigns.

So nobody living in, say, what we now call 300 AD would have ever said “the year right now is 300 AD.”

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Edjuk8er t1_jegvkoj wrote

Or straight to February 24, 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII fired up the Gregorian calendar

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PNWRockhound t1_jegvthl wrote

Because this timeline is based on Christianity, it is before Christ and after Christ and he lived something like 33 years so there are 33ish years unaccounted for. That would make 33 zero years.

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popisms t1_jegxcdu wrote

A.D. doesn't stand for After Christ.

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PNWRockhound t1_jegxqct wrote

Oh, I learned something new. I was told by my mother that it was After Death. It's actually Anno Domini, which means after his birth. Well all be damned. Lol

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I_Gave_Up_Awhile_Ago t1_jegykwl wrote

It stands for After Death. It is talking about after the death of Jesus

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