section_path: Accounts in Byzantine authors
section_name: Accounts in Byzantine authors
paragraph_text: Accounts in Byzantine authors
  
  From Justinian 's decree in AD 537 that all dates must include the Indiction, the unification of the theological date of creation (as yet unfinalized) with the administrative system of Indiction cycles became commonly referred to amongst Byzantine authors, to whom the indiction was the standard measurement of time.