From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:48:15 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] 2018: eighteen months to the Unix 50th anniversary In-Reply-To: References: <20180109003018.GB29792@minnie.tuhs.org> <20180110033459.GB27612@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: 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."