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Gavroche

A few additional comments:

1) since the guide is supposed to last beyond this year, and they don't want to have to change an entry every year, it is probably best not to begin with mentioning the current year. You can just drop the first sentence and begin with the following paragraph. It would be nice to mention the exact year according to the AD calendar that Dionysius created the calendar if it is known.

2) The reason Dionysius shouldn't be blamed for not making it the year Zero is that the concept of zero as a number hadn't been discovered/invented yet.

3) I'd like some evidence of the "universal acceptance." I'd like some countries named that aren't predominantly Christian that use the system anyway. I'm not doubting that there are some -- probably they have to in some part to conduct business with the countries that do use it -- but since we researchers are rarely known experts, we sometimes need to document our statements.

4) You might want to list the 10 systems the Farmer's Almanac lists.

Gavroche

Hickory repies I am planning to change the first sentence of the article and
some of the body, but to copy a list from old farmers almanac might
infringe on their copyright. Now if some editor obtained permission from
Yankee Publishing to include it that would be different.

On the other hand, we might be able to provide the 10 systems just by listing off the ones we know ourselves, and that wouldn't be infringing anybody's copyright.

1. AM Anno Mundi, dated since the creation the world (4004 BC). It think the date was 14 October, but I could be wrong.

2. Arabic System, since Mohammed's flight out of Mecca. Current year is something like 1407, but years are only 354 days long. Can any Muslim confirm this please?

3. Jewish system. Also dating from some time in around 4000 BC, but not as far as I know identical with the Anno Mundi system.

Anybody got any more?