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Originally Posted by Jennifer
Ha, that actually flew right over my head. You're right that the modern calendar starts at 1 AD. ...
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Originally Posted by Krohn
Looks like you live in the wrong century.
The modern calendar as defined in ISO 8601 does have the year 0 (which incidentally is what people stuck in the distant past would call 1 BC.)
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Well considering we're talking about 1986, it would have been the "modern" calendar then.
But in all seriousness, I didn't know about that. I thought we still used the Gregorian calendar. Interesting.
It's weird that most of my school years took place in the 1990's and none of my teachers ever mentioned that the BC and AD calendar system that was in all of the history textbooks was outdated.
As for Doc's 0000-9999 calendar system in the DeLorean, you're right, Doc does seem like the kind of person who would be an early adopter of a new system like that.