So what's the story behind Year Zero?

Why is Year Zero, Year Zero? Why did they decide that year should be Year Zero?

Now, at first I thought it was because that's Jesus' assumed birth date, but no. Jesus is said to have been born before then. Like around 2 to 7 BC.

So why is it Year Zero?

No, year Zero is not year zero. It has decencies of about 3 years. This is in the Rome Calender, of course which our Calender is made of. Gooooooooo Romans!!

To your second Q: Probably tampering in the religous field...

Ermm, okay. Can someone please answer the question?

Because there are NO records of Jesus' birth, so there is NO real zero?

Originally posted by Deja~vu
Because there are NO records of Jesus' birth, so there is NO real zero?

they didn't, there is no year zero. You go from 1 BC to 1 AD

Then why is 1 AD, 1 AD?

because it got picked out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero

Originally posted by lord xyz
Why is Year Zero, Year Zero? Why did they decide that year should be Year Zero?

Now, at first I thought it was because that's Jesus' assumed birth date, but no. Jesus is said to have been born before then. Like around 2 to 7 BC.

So why is it Year Zero?

That nowadays people assume he was born before 1 AD (if at all), doesn't really matter, when the Gregorian Calendar was passed 1 AD was the assumed date, and that's why we are stuck with it.

ROMANS RULE !!

Just a little Italia there....lol

Fair enough.

Seems kinda silly that people still go by it.

Originally posted by lord xyz
Fair enough.

Seems kinda silly that people still go by it.

Just about everyone follows it. Standards are needed so that there is less confusion.

Originally posted by Deja~vu
ROMANS RULE !!

Just a little Italia there....lol

Sicilians are better

well you gotta start somewhere. Seeing as no one was about to count the years when everything came into existence, & the sun and earth probably weren´t in the correct position to make a year any way. Whats the problem.

Or when do you think it should start?

Originally posted by Bicnarok
well you gotta start somewhere. Seeing as no one was about to count the years when everything came into existence, & the sun and earth probably weren´t in the correct position to make a year any way. Whats the problem.

Or when do you think it should start?

how about today

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Just about everyone follows it. Standards are needed so that there is less confusion.

the zerions faught the clingons in war the battle was so catastrophic that a new calendar was started from the day proclaimed DAY ZERO

Originally posted by lord xyz
What about the metric system?

Originally posted by Bardock42
That falls nicely into that category.

Originally posted by lord xyz
I'm saying that people used to use imperial, and they switched to metric, why can't same be done for the years?