Anyone who has studied calendars or history knows there was no Year 0. 1 A.D. Something is either before or after a point in time. It's a disease that Carl Sagan started, I think. One time I went to visit the Pope. Or rather I went to visit St. Peters, which is in the Vatican.
Time stands still there.
The Swiss guards are still wearing the 500 year-old costumes designed for them by Michelangelo. Some people say it makes them look like clowns. That's not right. It makes them look like Italian clowns. But I had been warned, and I brought a scarf to get into St. Peters.