Talk:0s BC

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Why is there a question mark in the article? Is an encyclopedia article supposed to ask when Jesus was born. I don't think so. Hoof38 21:28, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

The question mark indicates uncertainty regarding the year of his birth — it doesn't ask when he was born. — Joe Kress 19:30, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Why is 0 BC in the infobox along with the years if the article (rightly) notes there is no such year? Even the decade (AD) 0s does not have year 0 in the infobox. — Adhemar 18:12, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

It is correct that there is no year zero, but I do not believe that it is correct that the last decade BC/BCE and first decade AD/CE therefore would have only nine years. The scheme goes from Jan 1, 10 BCE down to midnight Dec 31, 1 BC/BCE--a full ten years--and then from Jan 1, 1 AD/CE through Dec 31 10 AD/CE--again a full ten years. The year 1, of course, is the first year of the first century, which ended (although noone so calculated at the time) on Dec 31, 100 AD/CE. Because there was no year zero, of course, and because a decade has ten years and a century has one hundred, the most recent millennium began Jan 1, 2001 AD/CE. Jan 1, 2000 AD/CE was merely the first day of the last year of the twentieth century, as indicated by its number 2000--twenty times 100 years. For these reasons, I believe that the reference in the article to nine year decades shortchanges the users of this encyclopedia.75.181.48.121 03:45, 3 June 2007 (UTC)JLBagwell

The problem is that decades are popularly construed as going from the "0" year to the "9" year, like the 1960s (1960-1969). By that standard, AD 0-9 would be a decade, but since there is no AD 0, that leaves 1-9 (nine years), and the same for the preceding "BC" decade. *Dan T.* 04:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)