Re: Compute Date Duration

Leif Svalgaard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.as400.mi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The BC and AD labels were, of course, not used until
a lot later than 1 AD or especially 2 BC :-)
Even if they wanted to write year 0, they couldn't.
How do you write 0 with Roman numerals?
But let's try to find our way back to MI....

On 10/19/05, Dave McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some years ago I wondered whether there was a year 0 and concluded there
> wasn't by finding some historical statement like:
>
>   "King Cretin assumed the throne in 2 BC and was deposed by his
> half-brother exactly 2 years later in 1 AD."
>
> ,,,but I don't remember where I saw it.
>
> --Dave
>

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