So you’d want the year leading up to Jesus’ (supposed) birth to be 0. Okay. Why though? Never mind that it doesn’t make sense to start counting at 0 (calling the first instance of something the “0th” instance), I’m still puzzled over what the benefit would be. I’m not saying the world would end, I’m just not seeing why.
Russia switching to the Gregorian calendar was aligning itself with its neighbours, the world has changed significantly since then, having the “correct” date, i.e. the same as everybody else, has become A LOT more important.
Because we can make it better, even if it’s just a tiny amount. To me, that’s enough. It’s the same with daylight savings time, the imperial system (in the few places that still use it), ISO 8601 date format, and so on. Sure, every individual patch doesn’t do a whole lot, and even together the effect may not be world-altering, but I simply refuse to believe in a future where we keep these small bugs around just because we were stupid once and then were too lazy to fix them.
It also wouldn’t be starting the count at 0. But to have a coherent system with both positive and negative numbers, there needs to be a 0. Plus, you can still call the year 0 the first year. When somebody is 0 years old, they’re in their first year of their life as well.
The Russia comparison was more for feasibility, not for importance.
When somebody is 0 years old, they’re in their first year of their life as well.
Whose age exactly are we recording here though? We’re counting years since an event (it is now the 2025th year since the event), not somebody’s or something’s age (the event is 2024 years old).
I seriously do not see how not having a 0th year is comparable to a bug and how having a year 0 would be in any way “better”. It doesn’t matter, outside of the occasional confusion among people who really aren’t affected much by the exact number the current year has as long as everybody agrees.
So you’d want the year leading up to Jesus’ (supposed) birth to be 0. Okay. Why though? Never mind that it doesn’t make sense to start counting at 0 (calling the first instance of something the “0th” instance), I’m still puzzled over what the benefit would be. I’m not saying the world would end, I’m just not seeing why.
Russia switching to the Gregorian calendar was aligning itself with its neighbours, the world has changed significantly since then, having the “correct” date, i.e. the same as everybody else, has become A LOT more important.
Because we can make it better, even if it’s just a tiny amount. To me, that’s enough. It’s the same with daylight savings time, the imperial system (in the few places that still use it), ISO 8601 date format, and so on. Sure, every individual patch doesn’t do a whole lot, and even together the effect may not be world-altering, but I simply refuse to believe in a future where we keep these small bugs around just because we were stupid once and then were too lazy to fix them.
It also wouldn’t be starting the count at 0. But to have a coherent system with both positive and negative numbers, there needs to be a 0. Plus, you can still call the year 0 the first year. When somebody is 0 years old, they’re in their first year of their life as well.
The Russia comparison was more for feasibility, not for importance.
Whose age exactly are we recording here though? We’re counting years since an event (it is now the 2025th year since the event), not somebody’s or something’s age (the event is 2024 years old).
I seriously do not see how not having a 0th year is comparable to a bug and how having a year 0 would be in any way “better”. It doesn’t matter, outside of the occasional confusion among people who really aren’t affected much by the exact number the current year has as long as everybody agrees.