On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, James Bell wrote:

> David Barker wrote:

> 1) Years are not counted starting with zero in any calendar I've ever
> heard of, and especially not in the one in use in the western world
> for at least the past millennium.


As I recently learned why the first year was named ONE. It's because when
the current calendar, Gregoian, was created, there was no symbol for the
romain numeral ZERO so thus, the first year was named ONE.

jzc