system of reckoning

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Or, to be more precise, his briss, which the inventor of the Anno Domini system of reckoning, a Scythian monk named Dennis the Diminutive, calculated--surely errantly--to have taken place on Jan. 1, A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have our system of reckoning, you know.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Timaeus of Tauromenium was the author of a great work on Sicily, and introduced the system of reckoning by Olympiads.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

Almost without debate, certainly without adequate consideration, the conference adopted a recommendation that astronomers and navigators should change their system of reckoning time.

From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon

The Assyrians were endowed with a keen sense of history, and had invented a system of reckoning time by means of certain officers called limmi, who gave their names to their years of office.

From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)