Heart attack kills China ‘century baby’ born at midnight on January 1, 2000 at 25 - eviltoast
  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    How so? The first century surely started with year 0, the first year. Just like a person is zero years old during its first year. And years 0-99 make up the first century. Then the second century starts at 100-199, and so on. 🤷‍♂️

      • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 days ago

        There is no year 1 in our current calendar system either. The Gregorian Calendar begins in 1582. The Julian Calendar includes year 1, but changed in year 8, so 0001-01-01 is a slightly different day in the Gregorian Calendar, the Julian Calendar, and the old Julian Calendar. 2000 years after Julian Calendar 0001-01-01 is late December 2000.

        This has less meaning in China because China used its own calendar until 1911. People living in China 2000 years before 2001-01-01 would not have called it year 1.

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          In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken but it irrelevant to when the millennium starts anyway

          • Victor@lemmy.world
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            4 days ago

            In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken

            Huh, that’s really interesting ☺️ kinda cute ngl