VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|David Harper|DATE|1364473967|CONTENT|[blockquote]Assuming he died 6 o&#039;clock-ish on Friday, 6 o&#039;clock saturday makes one day.Six o&#039;clock Sunday morning makes 1.5 days. What time is dawn in Israel in march? So in &#039;reality&#039; he barely managed 36 hours rather than the oft mis-quoted 3 days.[/blockquote]
It was common practice in the ancient world to count days [b]inclusively[/b].

The Roman calendar is a good case in point.  The sequence of days that we would call 13th, 14th and 15th of March were known to the Romans as &quot;day 3 before the Ides&quot;, &quot;day 2 before the Ides&quot;, and &quot;the Ides of March&quot; respectively.  It looks very odd to our eyes, but it was the way things were counted.  (And yes, they really did count the days backwards, but it didn&#039;t stop them from building an empire that spanned most of Europe, north Africa and the Near East!)

Anyway, Sunday would indeed be counted as the third day after an event which happened on Friday.

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