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
It was an ingenious system of reckoning time which had been in use in Assyria from an early period and was introduced into Cappadocia by Assyrian colonists.
From Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)
We have our system of reckoning, you know.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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
The advantages of such a system of reckoning and nomenclature, as suggested in the recommendations which I now submit, will be, I think, self-evident.
