This is the 15th cycle of the Mayan calender, so I'd think we'd have time.
Plus the Julian and Gregorian calenders weren't taken into account, so I'd say the dates are a wee bit off.
It's 2012, not because of Jesus, but Julius Caesar. He eventually adopted the 4 year leap year cycle after his failed extra month every 2 year calender that he instituted in 46BC. By 1582 though, the Julian calender was 11 days off, so pope Gregory changed it up. Now there are only 97 leap years in a 400 year cycle, instead of Julius's 100 every 400 years.
Documented history is fun.
I don't believe all that stuff.
but I will give you credit for looking it all up.
as if it meant something.
you still only have 1 day , because the media say's so.
It's 2012, not because of Jesus, but Julius Caesar
when we write a date we use either AD or BC
in your opinion what do the two above represent?
is it after the death of caesar AD and before caesar BC?
the Jewish Calendar says this year is 5773
2012-2013
Considering BC, and AD, were not adopted until the early 6th century, they can mean whatever you want. More common nowadays (and I always forget) is BCE and ACE.
AD does not stand for anything death related anyways. Latin. Anno domini. Year of our lord. So in 523(AD) or so, they wrote up this fantasy novel (or stole stories for it, like Horace... aka Jesus), called it the bible, and then claimed we have been counting the years since some carpenter's birth in a barn, that was undocumented, and over half a millennium prior to the dating suffix.
Julius Caesar didn't give two craps out of five craps what they called the years prior to his calendar, since he was the ruler of the known world, nobody said otherwise.
And belief has nothing to do with this one, I'm afraid. Unlike the bible, this little calendar education is backed up by actual texts (or tomes?). Even Pope Gregory recognized the Julian calender as an invention of Julius Caesar.
Sure makes a handy time to fabricate the birth of a god son though.
Or sun god... Ever hear of Horace? Look it up, you may find the tale quite familiar.
