system of reckoning
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Or, to be more precise, his briss, which the inventor of the Anno Domini system of reckoning, a Scythian monk named Dennis the Diminutive, calculated--surely errantly--to have taken place on Jan. 1, A.D.
From Time Magazine Archive
What change in the system of reckoning has been effected?
From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Young, Andrew W.
Timaeus of Tauromenium was the author of a great work on Sicily, and introduced the system of reckoning by Olympiads.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
He quite ignores the modern system of reckoning time, going by the ancient ecclesiastical calendar and the moon.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
The Assyrians were endowed with a keen sense of history, and had invented a system of reckoning time by means of certain officers called limmi, who gave their names to their years of office.
From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
