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

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.

I have throughout identified the social organization with the kinship organization—namely, that into which a man is born in consequence of the marriage laws and the system of reckoning descent.

From Anthropology by Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph)

Over eleven months, by our system of reckoning.

From The Blind Spot by Hall, Austin