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VoluminousFlush
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11 Jul 2006, 5:53 pm

Let's say today is Wednesday, January 1, A.D 0. What was yesterday?

Was it Tuesday, December 31, 1 B.C.?
---It seems to me if we are going to start going backward in time, e.g. 0, 1 BC, 2 BC, i.e. -n BC, then we ought to reverse the days.

Maybe it was Thursday, January 1, 1 B.C.
---But then there would be two January 1sts.

Let's pretend however it was January 1. Our days would proceed from the beginning of the year as follows: December 31, December 30, December 29... and our week would be Saturday, Friday, Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday, Sunday.

Maybe we could just get the Pope to change the day like he has so many times in the past.



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11 Jul 2006, 10:08 pm

well, in a way you are absolutely right! I beleive it already is ordered that way, so that only the year number seems to run backwards (counting down to CE). The seasons and months of the year run the same as they do normally.