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A glitch in February of the year 0

19 pointsby lukasgelbmannlast Friday at 4:08 PM14 commentsview on HN

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stymaartoday at 5:47 AM

The glitch starts with the existence of “year 0”: there's no such thing in the Christian calendars, it goes straight from 1BC to 1AD. (Zero didn't even exist in the 6th century when the Anno Domini epoch was set).

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XYen0ntoday at 6:14 AM

> The first century starts at 0001-01-01 00:00:00 AD, although they did not know it at the time. This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar countries. There is no century number 0, you go from -1 century to 1 century. If you disagree with this, please write your complaint to: Pope, Cathedral Saint-Peter of Roma, Vatican.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/functions-datetime.html#...

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