From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] 2018: eighteen months to the Unix 50th anniversary
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:48:15 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801111043140.53831@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMnNGgO0Qfy9i1wOyvNM9f8g4+xHCQw3QZsUXDJq-83mK1Ciw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Andy Kosela wrote:
> Christians also do not know the _exact_ year when Jesus was born, but
> they arbitrary chose the date as the start of their Epoch.
Not really arbitrary; the dates were chosen to hijack pagan festivals, so
we have Christmas at Yuletide, Easter at the Spring fertility rites, etc.
No way the big JC could've been born in the middle of winter in that part
of the world; try about 4BC (Halley's comet) around Spring in March or so.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-10 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 0:30 Warren Toomey
2018-01-09 0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-09 2:16 ` Noel Hunt
2018-01-09 2:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-09 7:30 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-01-09 18:09 ` Warner Losh
2018-01-10 3:34 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-01-10 4:11 ` Warner Losh
2018-01-10 5:23 ` George Michaelson
2018-01-10 6:25 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-01-10 6:53 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-01-10 10:57 ` Warren Toomey
2018-01-10 16:53 ` Grant Taylor
2018-01-10 13:23 ` Andy Kosela
2018-01-10 23:48 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-01-11 0:06 ` George Michaelson
2018-01-11 22:08 ` Robert Brockway
2018-01-11 1:22 Noel Chiappa
2018-01-11 21:45 ` Clem Cole
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