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

According to the abjad system of reckoning, the numerical value of Tá is nine, which equals the numerical value of the name Bahá.

From The Kitáb-i-Aqdas by Bahá'u'lláh

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

Over eleven months, by our system of reckoning.

From The Blind Spot by Hall, Austin

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