On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 07:32:25AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > Also, the idea that a calculation of *anything* in our current Gregorian > calendar system would extend back to a BC date is ludicrous [...] The high-class version of this swear word would be "proleptic". But yeah, I agree with you :-) For all the mess involved, and how the calendar change moved through the so-called civilised world, or not, see [1]. Revolts and all (because folks tended to believe they had been stolen days of their lives). Now look at a birth date recorded back then in some small-village parish by a priest "under spirits" and guess what the real Unix time was back then ;^) Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_of_the_Gregorian_calendar -- t
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