[Bug 12489] Conversion example of Julian/proleptic Greogrian date issues

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12489

--- Comment #5 from Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> 2011-04-15 22:31:07 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #2)
> > 
> > > You mean BC. 
> > 
> > No. Year 37 is in our era. ;-)
> 
> The Julian calendar was not introduced in the year 45 AD.

Of course. 

>  It was introduced in
> the year 45 BC.  In 45 AD, Julius Caesar had been dead for decades.  Nero was
> born in 37 AD, not BC, contrary to point (2) in comment #0,

Ah, bummer.

> but I didn't catch
> that when I wrote comment #2 -- I was pointing out a separate error.

1-0 to you, in this case. :-)

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