[lojban-beginners] Re: Dates

[Nick Nicholas <nickn@unimelb.edu.au>]

>  There is a problem with that method:  Do we need to say the year 23 
> AD as 0023?

As I point out on the Wiki page, 3 digit years are unambiguous, and 
making 2 or 1 digit years into 3 digits is not that much of a 
problem. As it is, we treat 1 and 2 digit years specially in English 
specially anyway; people might say "in 555, Justinian invaded", but 
they almost always speak of "in 43 AD" rather than "in 43, Claudius 
acceeded to the throne" --- precisely because that would be ambiguous 
in English with (19)43. So making the Lojban year be 043 or 006 is 
not that much of a problem.

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