The attached file "prolep.doc" is the extract from the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition) on Compact Disc. It may interest you all to know that Oxford records "proleptik" in use in Medieval times as meaning "predictive, prognostic" or "of the nature of a pre-assumption; pre-conceived; apriori; axiomatic"...etc. Nathan Myers is right when he states "proleptic" refers to the future not the past. The question is how far into the future to predict as can be noted in the following quotation in Oxford of pre-POSIX xtime calendar standardization efforts to determine the date at which God created the earth. Usher (1658) "Having placed therefore our heads of this Period in the Kalends of January, in that proleptik year, the first of our Christian vulgar account must be reckoned the 4717 of the Julian Period". This having been noted it is interesting that as we approach the 2nd millenium , we again have a "proleptic" debate. Jake Knoppers