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Zkuq said:

Didn't we just have this thread a few months ago? Did we suddenly get a new person from a 19th century, or was the last thread about the last person from the 1800s? I'm fairly sure it was about the 19th century though.

MrWayne said:

With this logic, the 1st century goes from 0001 to 0100 and here is the problem, you are missing the year 0000.
Yes, there is actually a year 0000, according to the original gregorian calendar this would be the year 1 BC but we're not using the original gregorian calendar anymore.

 

source:      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Dates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar

As far as I know, the Gregorian calendar is the calendar used for many practical purposes, and ISO 8601 isn't used very much in everyday use. As a simple example, dates are not written using ISO 8601 in English. We write, for example, Apr 22, 2018, or 4/22/2018 (which, if you ask me, is a really bad format, but it's still used), and not 2018-04-22.

Well, UK and US also still cling to the imperial system, besides it making no goddamn sense, so insisting on using an outdated form of calendar isn't that big of a surprise. :P