Heart attack kills China ‘century baby’ born at midnight on January 1, 2000 at 25 - eviltoast
    • 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.

      • falseprophet@fedia.io
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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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          In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken

          Huh, that’s really interesting ☺️ kinda cute ngl