15:5215:52, 12 January 2017diffhist+1,514
Common Era
Undid revision 759672107 by
John Maynard Friedman.I'm mystified.The cited source for the quote is pp 778-9 of Blackburn and Holford-Strevens.Are you saying you have read the book and the words are not there?
15:0015:00, 12 January 2017diffhist+1,035
Common Era
The year was chosen not because of its relation to the (unknown) date of either Christ's birth or conception but because it was the first year of a chronological cycle.
08:5108:51, 27 June 2016diffhist−2,469
History of UTC
Rv. There is no redundancy. McCarthy and Seidelmann made it very plain that UT was GMT, but measured from midnight rather than noon as hitherto.
15:5215:52, 12 January 2017diffhist+1,514
Common Era
Undid revision 759672107 by
John Maynard Friedman.I'm mystified.The cited source for the quote is pp 778-9 of Blackburn and Holford-Strevens.Are you saying you have read the book and the words are not there?
15:0015:00, 12 January 2017diffhist+1,035
Common Era
The year was chosen not because of its relation to the (unknown) date of either Christ's birth or conception but because it was the first year of a chronological cycle.
08:5108:51, 27 June 2016diffhist−2,469
History of UTC
Rv. There is no redundancy. McCarthy and Seidelmann made it very plain that UT was GMT, but measured from midnight rather than noon as hitherto.