Posted by:
Concrete Zipper
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Date: May 27, 2021 04:47PM
elderolddog Wrote:
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> (was year Zero a leap year?)
I know you're joking here, but I can address this topic seriously.
The Anno Domini system (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini ) that we use to number our years wasn't devised until the year A.D. 525, so years before then were never numbered as such. Also, even in proleptic (look it up) versions of the Anno Domini system, there is no year zero (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero ), so it would be difficult for a non-existent year to be a leap year.
That said, your question actually has a reasonable answer. Leap years in the original Julian calendar were applied incorrectly after that calendar was established, inserting an extra day every three years instead of four. To fix this problem, Augustus ordered that there would be no leap days added for a period of twelve years, from what we call 9 B.C. until after A.D. 4:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#Leap_year_errorTherefore, even if there had been a year zero, it could not have been a leap year.
You're welcome.
CZ