> Not counting from zero leads to weird situations at times, such
> as the missing year 0 in the BC/AD system ;-)
Well, since you couldn't resist, nor can I...
There are (really) two systems here, not one, and the relationship is:
year X AD = year (1-X) BC
(and thus: year X BC = year (1-X) AD)
Both of the AD and BC systems (really) have zero and negative year
numbers, but in each instance one prefers to use the system where
the number, for the year in question, has a strictly positive value.
So there is no inconsistency with the whole numbers... ;-)
/kent k
> A./
