There is no year zero. We went from 1BC to 1AD because zero wasn't a number until much later. But ISO 8601, the date format we use for web apps, does have a zero year, so 3BC maps to the year -0002.

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This ruined my day

PARMAN! I dm'd you

GN Vitor ๐Ÿ’ค

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And I thought digital datetime standards couldn't get worse.

Wait until you realize that cities can create their own time zone, daylight saving rules and even leap seconds.

Time math is not fun.

Definitly

Just another reason to move to a 13 month calendar, with 4 weeks within each.

Day zero will be Jan 9, 2009.

Easter is New Year

Easter wouldn't be on the calendar by default, but you'd be free to add it yourself.

Ok I'll bite. Why is Jan 9 day 0? ๐Ÿธ

I meant Jan 3.

Genesis block

Yeah, that's gonna be a problem. 13 months with 28 days each is 364 days. One years js roughly 365.26 days. I'm inclined to say that primordial sin was an asteroid of some kind tilting the Earth's axis.

Feb always has 29 days.

And every 4 years we have a day of collective amnesia.

Ok this might just work. You're good with numbers, man! ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

And we wouldn't need a new cat calendar every year.

Are you trying to put out of business entire religions? ๐Ÿคญ

What kind of sorcery is this? Can we all agree that the current year is 16Aโ‚ฟ now?

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I really enjoy your random fun facts. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

And along with ISO 8601 comes the proper way to write a date

The further back you go the higher the count of BC but fast forward and all you can gets hands on are more Ailing Dollars. But the future, according to the 90s game series Master of Orion has the universal currency as BCs for money. I particalrly liked moo2

I fucking hate people who don't believe in 0 my God.

They fucked our whole damn calendar.

THIS IS THE 20TH CENTURY GODDAMMIT FUCK YOUR 1-INDEXING

There's no year zero as there's no month zero, no day zero, no century zero, no millennium zero:

Because all this numbers are *ordinals*, not cardinals.