Sentence examples for zero date from inspiring English sources
The City has pushed back the day zero date to 2019.
The Classic Maya Long Count inscriptions enumerate the cycles that have elapsed since a zero date in 3114 bce.
Thus, "9.6.0.0.0," a katun-ending date, means that nine baktuns and six katuns have elapsed from the zero date to the day 2 Ahau 13 Tzec (May 9, 751 ce).
Mayan astronomy underlay a complex calendrical system involving an accurately determined solar year (18 months of 20 days each, plus a 5-day period considered unlucky by the Mayans), a sacred calendar of 260 days (13 cycles of 20 named days), and a variety of longer cycles culminating in the Long Count, a continuous marking of time, based on a zero date in 3113 bce.
For those who see September 11 as the "ground zero" date for thinking about national security, they can add the August 14, 2003, grid failure to their view.
The Long Count's "zero date" was set at a point in the past marking the end of the third world and the beginning of the current one, which corresponds to 11 August 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
Olivia recalled their one date.
"One date, and you're living together".
But that one date he knew.
