Timing Geek alert

[Leo Mauler]

Except that there was no 6 A.D.  At the time of what
would have been 6 A.D., there was no Gregorian
Calendar to make it 6 A.D.  The Gregorian Calendar
wasn't adopted until 1582, and the previous Julian
Calendar, while adopted in what would have been 46
B.C. on the Gregorian Calendar, would have put another
number on what would have been 6 A.D. on the Gregorian
Calendar.

Not to mention that A.D. is a Christian name for the
period after 1 A.D. (there was no 0 A.D.) and the
Julian Calendar wouldn't have had an A.D., let alone a
6 A.D.

So if your math teacher brother is correct, 01:02:03
04/05/06 has *never happened* and *never will happen*.

--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO"
<brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:

> From my brother the math teacher:
>   
> Actually it has already happened 2000 years 
> ago in the year 6 AD.  It is now 2006 so it 
> does not quite work out.
>  
> 01:02:03 04/05/06  should be  01:02:03 04/05/2006.
>  
> This is the state of our mathematics.
>  
> Groan,
> Phil Kelsay
> Mathematics Teacher 


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