"Of course there are still discrepancies: some dates are just wrong. But what happens now is that when historians find a discrepancy, they fix the year of the event, not the system of years:"
The most obvious example of this is that most historians of the ancient world now believe that Jesus of Nazareth was born somewhere between 4 BC and 6 BC-- which, if you take BC to mean "Before Christ", literally means 4 to 6 years before his own birth.
So historians have fixed the date of the event, not the system of dates.
"Of course there are still discrepancies: some dates are just wrong. But what happens now is that when historians find a discrepancy, they fix the year of the event, not the system of years:"
The most obvious example of this is that most historians of the ancient world now believe that Jesus of Nazareth was born somewhere between 4 BC and 6 BC-- which, if you take BC to mean "Before Christ", literally means 4 to 6 years before his own birth.
So historians have fixed the date of the event, not the system of dates.
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