Wikipedia claims in short that "Year Zero is the year before 1 A.D. used in astronomical calculations.". In full: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
Seems like no calendar, other than astronomical things include it. On 16 February 2010 04:32, Richard O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Ivan Miljenovic wrote: > > On 16 February 2010 14:45, Don Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ivan.miljenovic: >>> >>>> On 16 February 2010 08:35, Don Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Enjoy the new decade of flexible, fusible, fast arrays for Haskell! >>>>> >>>> >>>> /me points out that 2010 is actually the last year of the decade, and >>>> not the first year of a new decade... >>>> >>> >>> Computer scientists count from zero. :-) >>> >> >> Except that the current numbering system to record the number of >> revolutions that our planet has revolved around the nearest solar body >> was not devised by computer scientists... >> > > I'm not sure what kind of people are responsible for ISO 8601, > but the ISO calendar, mandated by several programming language > standards including ANSI Smalltalk, uses something called the > "proleptic Gregorian calendar" (ISO 8601) or the "retrospective > Gregorian calendar" (ANSI Smalltalk), which includes a year zero. > Although 1AD was preceded by 1BC, 1CE is preceded by 0CE. > > Given that Europe got the concept of zero from the Muslims, > I wonder whether the Muslim calendar(s) has(have) a year 0? > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > -- Ozgur Akgun
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