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Did the year zero never exist ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Please explain my confused me like I'm 5 (0r 4 or 6).

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The year was built around it, not the other way. It's all derived from the Christian calendar. I'm not sure off the top of my head how Christmas ended up a few days before New Years, but they're deliberately very close. It has been argued that the real life birth might not have been in winter at all (or even Bethlehem).

I digress, though. It would inevitably be lopsided somehow, because you've centered the numbering system around six months off of the New Years points.