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

The system of reckoning time by limmi was of Assyrian origin, and recent discoveries have made it clear that it went back to the first days of the monarchy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

For a time the system of reckoning by the mark threatened to replace it, but in 1313 it was again authorised by Philippe le Bel.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur

Hamburg banco, the system of reckoning of the Hamburg Bank.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur

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)