yeah, so it turns out that a long time ago when people started documenting dates of history and making a timeline, they messed up. Jesus Christ was supposedly living during a time when this one king(dont know the name) was ruling. Well, it turns out that this king died somewhere between 6 BC- 4 BC. How could he die before christ if christ was alive? yeah so its actually somewhere between 2002-2004. Weird, huh? I asked my theology professor about it and he confirmed. i just find this crazy
It was quite a mess back then when England decided to adopt the Gregorian calendar. I was using examples before, but the actual date went from Sept. 2 1752 to Sept 14 1752. This doesn't seem like a big deal... unless you're trying to pay rent and you just lost nearly 2 weeks! So, the next time someone asks you, "What happened in England on Sept. 10 1752?" you can tell them "Nothing... absolutely nothing!"
so after compiling this together I guess that the year 0 was the time when people started using the most correct calendar? And also the Common Era as well.
So the next thing thats probably going to be said is "there is still circa 68 or circa 281 and stuff like that". When history is old enough, it gets buried and destroyed, and more important things are lost for a long time. Like the fact of Mt. Visuvious and Pompeii, we still dont know much about it all.
Why would it matter what day or year it is? Today is now. The year is present. These numbers and names we use for days months and years is just to keep track of ourselves. What numbers we assign actually don't affect anything. The world "ending" in 2012? So it will end when WE say it's 2012? or when the actual 2012 is depending on when whoever started keeping a calendar? OK. OR maybe its just what we came up with and has nothing to do with when the world is ending. The world will end when a meteor hits it or if a plague kills us all or the sun explodes. Not when we say its 2012 according to us. Remember 2000? Oh yeah, nothing. The numbers we assign to days don't actually mean anything except to help us with scheduling and keeping track of things. Or possibly keeping things in proportion to eachother, events in history.
Plus our calendar is based on the sun cycle and this makes it somewhat inaccurate to begin with. Do some looking into Leap Day and possible future changes to it and you'll see what I mean. We so should have stuck with a lunar calendar.
It doesn't really matter... because we created this system of time anyways. It is based on the seasons, moon, etc. but at least most people run on the same system instead of keeping their own time system.
Stuff like this kinda makes me a little angry. I mean, for example, Daylight Savings Time. I don't like it, because it can mess dates up as well. Like today could actually be the 4th or 2nd, not the third. I also don't like the fact that people mess up the dates. I don't know why, it just bothers me, little stuff like that, lol.
well how can we know what year it really is. if you count time, you have a starting point. and you have a calendaric system valid for everyone. year 2009 is only an agreement made by all countries which use the calendar we know. and as long everyone uses it, everything is fine. we can also start saying that we have the year 2053. it does not change anything
