Vitor Pamplona on Nostr: There is no year zero. We went from 1BC to 1AD because zero wasn't a number until ...
There is no year zero. We went from 1BC to 1AD because zero wasn't a number until much later. But ISO 8601, the date format we use for web apps, does have a zero year, so 3BC maps to the year -0002.
GN.
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2025-05-13 03:11:54Event JSON
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