... >> I think the main problem is some people won't acknowledge after the fact, that there had to be a year that started with zero. <<

The calendar we are now using was created arbitrarily after the fact without a year zero (since the concept wasn't even invented until centuries later).

No other system of counting starts with zero, why should years? Kindly explain the logic of this, as I don't see any.

----- jim o\-S