Nick T wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> On page 29 of the PostgreSQL User's Guide, distributed with version 7.0.3,
> in table 3-8 Postgres Date Input, the last item in the Example column is
> January 8, 99 BC. The corresponding Description item reads "Year 99 before
> the Common Era". The author or the editor of this manual is obviously
> expressing his anti Christian bias in attempting to redefine BC to mean
> "Common Era". Throughout history BC, when associated with a date, has
> always stood for "Before Christ", and it always will. I challenge the
> author/editor to tell us exactly what is the significant event in history
> that marks the boundary of what he chooses to call "Common Era".
I always assumed that the point was not to diminish the relevence of
Jesus' birth, but to take his teaching to heart and show sensitivity to
those whose cultures don't share that heritage.
As for postgresql having an anit-Christian bias? I think Lamar and
Bruce, among others, could not be accused of an anti-Christian bias.
--
Karl