AskHistorians Podcast Episode 006 Discussion Thread - What Year Is It?

by TasfromTAS

Episode 006 is up!

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/u/Algernon_Asimov reads his answer to the very popular question What Year Is It? Many thanks to Algernon for taking the time to record this!

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gingerkid1234

Man, it would be nice if we required all dates to be in culturally relevant calendar system. (/s)

Also, A_A, excellent job with the Hebrew calendar (and in pronouncing Pesach). A couple quibbles:

  1. The calendar is technically luni-solar, not purely lunar. Leap-months are used to keep the calendar in line with the solar calendar
  • Nisan is only the 1st month using the biblical system--months are numbered differently at different times. The bible calls it the 1st month, but it's the 6th month in the usual post-biblical one
Searocksandtrees

really interesting pod, Algernon! maybe we should link this in the FAQ :)

sharpie660

Could you please update this on the wiki? I often check there in case there's another featured thread.

Also suggestion, for the discussion thread, rather than laying out every prior podcast, do a "Previous" and "Next" podcast link. That way early episodes aren't out of date, and requires minimal editing.

sharpie660

Back for another post because I noticed that there's no discussion thread for the next podcast D:

It'd be really nice if you could remember to update the wiki whenever you post a new episode.