[Avodah] How do Chazal calculate a king's reign?

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 02:17:30PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: Is it possible that Bavli kings counted their years from Tishri and
: Persian ones from Nissan, or vice versa?

RH 1:1 tells us to go with RZS's "visa versa": Rosh Chodesh Nissan is RH
for our kings, Tishrei is for theirs.

I suggested a variant of this back when the discussion began. I wrote:
>                                                     ... Adar is between
> Tishrei and Nissan, and thus between the time N's reign year-count gets
> incremented and Yehoyachin's. Could that be relevant?

:-)BBii!
-Micha