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

But the Lord has His own system of reckoning compound interest, and His ways of paying are not our ways.

From Saxe Holm's Stories by Jackson, Helen Hunt

We have sixty divisions on the dials of our watches simply because the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who lived in the second century B. C., accepted the Babylonian system of reckoning time, that system being sexagesimal.

From Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

We have a decimal system of reckoning, we count by tens; why then should we divide the day and night into twelve hours each, instead of into ten or some multiple of ten?

From Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition by King, L. W. (Leonard William)

It is plain that up to this time there must have existed a different system of reckoning the ages than that which pertained afterwards.

From Japan by Murray, David