Subject: Re: Ussher 6000! From: bdiebold@pantheon.yale.edu (Benjamin H. Diebold) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 06:37:41 GMT Message-ID: <1996Oct24.063741.47378@ucl.ac.uk>I think there's a problem with year 0. The sequence from 4004 BC to 1996 AD includes a skip from 1 BC to 1 AD, since there's no year 0. So, you'll have plenty of time to plan a 6000th birthday party for the world, on October 23, 1997.
By the way, I have to add that just this afternoon I looked at the original 1658 edition of Ussher's Annals of the World, which we happen to have in our rare book library. Very cool. October 23rd is indeed the day, chosen because it was the first Sunday following the autumnal equinox in the year 710 of the Julian calendar.
Ben bdiebold@pantheon.yale.edu