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

Almost without debate, certainly without adequate consideration, the conference adopted a recommendation that astronomers and navigators should change their system of reckoning time.

From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon

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)

We have our system of reckoning, you know.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

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)