Posted on 01/25/2026 6:15:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The AD/CE system we use to date the year was introduced - more or less by accident - during the Middle Ages. Before its invention, the classical world used a wide range of dating systems.
How did the Greeks and Romans count Years? | 7:52
toldinstone | 615K subscribers | 435,313 views | December 31, 2021
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No wonder they collapsed.
That’s funny.
(originally released on "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway")Counting Out Time (2007 Remaster) | 3:40
Genesis | 766K subscribers | 7,341 views | August 29, 2015
What you said there is just a stupid lie.
What you said there is just a stupid lie.
One theory about long human ages that I’ve heard is that, as sin increased in the world, the whole of creation became gradually more corrupt, including human bodies so that people would live for shorter times.
That particular issue may stem from a lack of a common way of rendering time. The same thing happened on the Sumerian king list, where rulers in the supposed earlier dynasties had really long reigns, with the first group having 10s of 1000s of years, the next group hundreds of years, followed by rulers with what we’d recognize as plausible lengths of reigns.
According to the late Samuel Noah Kramer, the different cities had no standard way of recording numbers, and when the king list (there are multiple copies) was compiled, there wasn’t a lexicon available, so the scribe just wrote down his (or her) understanding of the figures from unfamiliar traditions.
The other possibility is, a different physical source of timekeeping was in use over that three- or four-thousand year period; the Jewish calendar is a lunar one (the current version) alternates 30 and 29 day months to get that 29.5 day (actual is 29.53) synodic month length. That leads to a year of 354 days, which is adjusted every few years with the addition of a second Adar.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=jewish+calendar&summary=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Month#Synodic_month
Just to slap ya around, the sidereal month is 27.321661 days long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month#Sidereal_month
Back when I was in school, the sidereal YEAR figure, if memory serves, was 365.242198 days long. That figure has been refined through the interving years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_year
Huh? No, not 1000 days. 365.25 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_year_(astronomy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Gregorian_reform
Hey....that is what I was instructed, and the department utilized for the 6 years that I worked there, until I had an opportunity to learn a new field of work.
Oct. 70 to Dec 76.
The Roman’s went like I, II, III, IV, V...
The first time I saw an alternative to BC/AD was in a history book published in Communist East Germany, which I purchased in an East Berlin bookstore and still have. For dates, instead of BC/AD, it used "vor unsere Zeit (vuZ)/unsere Zeit (uZ)--before our time/our time.
Atheists and Christ-haters can't stand BC/AD.
For the thinkers, it makes one wonder about “ man’s “ clock. Earth time can not be accurately counted by any of man’s accounting. Even the atomic clocks around the world have to be updated, corrected annd effected by elevation ( gravity) and other factors.
Man’s calculation of time is not the same as how God defines time.
Denis the Short — who created the date of inception for the Gregorian Calendar — is the reason the 21st Century started in 2001, not in Y2K.
The only way the final year of any decade (or century, or millennium) could end in a nine (9) is if it had started with a zero (0). So for the 20th Century to have ended in 1999, Denis the Short would have had to have started his calendar with the year 0 (zero).
But he couldn’t, because it was several more centuries before the numeral 0 (zero) reached Europe. So in Denis’ calendar, the year 1 BC was followed by 1 AD. The end of the first decade AD was the year (1+9=) 10, and first year of the second decade AD was (10+1=) 11.
So if you celebrated the beginning of the new century on 1 Jan 2000 (which practically the entire western world did), you jumped the gun.
And there was no rush getting to the moon when we did because we’d still have kept JFK’s promise to reach it “before this decade is out” if they’d waited until 1970.
“Man’s calculation of time is not the same as how God defines time.”
How does God define time?
Are you buying silver?
Do you mean the part about the left-wing hating Christianity?
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