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Originally posted by Jeff Waegelin
It makes logical sense to start with one, not zero
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I don't agree. I think that it makes logical sense that they may have started counting days, not knowing that they would later be counting years. After a few years, they said, "Since the number of days is so large, let's start counting sets of 365 days, or years, since it takes that long for the Earth to revolve around the sun." This way, they could have started with year zero, but, at the time, they wouldn't have called it year zero.