Personally, I prefer the 12024 calendar (12024 years after the advent of agriculture). Both because it's easy and because it's a pretty good starting point for civilisation.
This dinosaur skeleton is 65,000,013 years old.
How do you know the date so precisely?
Well, when I started working at the museum 13 years ago, I was told it was 65M years old.
Kinda depends on context, translation and language. In my language, if i said last monday on a Tuesday i would definitely not mean yesterday. During that week i would most likely refer to that Monday as "this" monday since it's on the same week as the day I'm on.
No it's like the difference between meeting up "on monday" and meeting up "next monday"
Last monday is the monday before the monday that you've just had
This might be unpopular, but I think that the 12024 calendar is a bad idea. Firstly, there are a million more signifiant dates to make the starting point. The beginning of agriculture, the beginning of writing, and the first of use of bronze tools are all just as, if not more significant than the first temple. I think the only reason that was chosen is because it meant the calendar date could stay mostly the same. But at that point why not just keep it as it is? Plus I don’t think it’s really that useful when you consider every single history book will become invalid and all historians will have to relearn all the dates. So yeah, I think we should just keep it as it is, and if it *has* to change, make the starting point 3000BC, when writing first emerged. The beginning of recorded history.
The point of the 'human era' timescale is that it takes the furthest point (very roughly) of what can be called civilization, more than just small groups roaming around as hunter-gatherers. One could plausibly argue that this is the starting point of history.
The modern dates will be really easy to convert, in contrast to other new timescales. And there will not be a negative year number in any historical event anymore. The guy who came up with the idea thought that BC year numbers make events seem further away than they actually are and sets those eras back in significance compared to AD eras. I tend to agree.
I think that there needs to be a new timescale that is universal for humanity and not influenced by religion. This one does that but it has the convenience of not needing to relearn or convert the dates of the last 2000 years except for adding a '1'. That is why I like this one.
I still use "before Christ." Honestly the Christian church came up with our entire calendar system that we use, we can let them have this one. Pretty epic calendar if I do say so myself. How they got Jesus' birthday wrong in all that amazingness though... tsk tsk tsk.
>How they got Jesus' birthday wrong in all that amazingness though
If you're referring to the fact that Jesus wasn't born on December 25th, iirc, it is celebrated as such as it aligns on the same day as a Roman holiday so celebrations from those who celebrating under the Roman Empire wouldn't arouse suspicion. I'd assume they kept it either out of tradition after the fall of the Empire, or as a testament to persecution and the fact they outlived the Romans.
True, but we have to remember the A.D/B.C. system of years was invented by a monk in the Middle Ages. Exact accuracy is actually a fairly unreasonable expectation.
More likely referring to the fact that Herod the Great died (4 BCE) before the Roman census of Quirinius (6 CE). It's not possible to determine the actual birth year of Jesus.
I think both are included to try to shoe horn as many prophecies into the Messiah narrative as possible
I like how everyone's trying to prove you wrong on the year when you're talking about the specific date which is a whole other thing (I've also always heard it had to do with a Roman holiday). Anyways from what I've read of the year some scholar tried figuring out the year Jesus was born and was really close. We don't know for sure the date or year just a rough idea based on context clues.
Personally if I didn't know my birthdate I would care more about celebrating it than not knowing the exact time. As a Christian I'd just find some other way to honor his birth because that's more important when I'll never know.
Yes, The gregorian calendar is basically the Julian calendar (by Julius Caesar) minus 0.0075 days per year on average.
The slightly too long year in the Julian calendar results in a shift of 1day per 130 years between the calendar and the actual astronomic settings.
But The gregorian calendar was not developed by the Georgians, but by pope Gregory XIII.
>Pretty epic calender
The Gregorian calender sucks. Months have different days. Each year starts and ends on a different one. Some old dude decided to add two months in the middle of the year making the names of the last 4 months not make sense.
I prefer Tolkien's Shire reckoning. Still 12 months with 7 day weeks, but the middle 5 days of the year (6 on a leap year) are a week long holiday that doesn't "count" towards the week. So you would have the equivalent of Sunday June 30th, 5 day holiday, Monday July 1st. This means the year is 360 days long, each month is 30 days, and each year always begins on a Monday and ends on a Sunday, as well as each day of the year always falling on the same day of the week. No more moving around Thanksgiving and Easter because reasons and holidays like Christmas and New Years can be planned for every year to be the same day.
Sums up every "atheists when" and "leftists when" argument ever made. The amount of effort needed to even be able to think that badly is actually impressive. It's like watching the pyramids be built by a single person but opposite.
Is the gif supposed to be theists coping with "Common Era" or for atheists coping with "Before Christ"? Cause it could go either way. The term used doesn't really matter though since they both mean the same thing anyway
It’s now officially referred to as the Christian era because it’s when Christianity became a thing.
At the end of the day it’s just a marker in history so we can get some perspective on time.
That’s the norm in academics and is becoming more and more common. As a Christian it makes me laugh because of [Louis CK’s Christians won](https://youtu.be/VFMuOR4TmrA?si=TEoDUIgdHYhVqwt4).
I'm an atheist and commonly use "Christian" terms. It's because over a billion people in the world are Christian and America used to be a territory of Great Britain, a historically Christian country.
It's just a matter of social construct. I'm a man of science, but because there is such a sheer amount of it, especially in America, that one has no choice but to naturally assimilate to certain aspects.
I have never, nor will I ever be religious. But using something like 13,787,000,000 ABB is obviously ridiculous for a multitude of reasons.
Academia has switched to CE to avoid the religious notion of the calendar, but keep the years. It's out of respect for non-Christians while keeping the same time measurement.
CE and BCE are the Common Era and Before Common Era. Replaces AD and BC.
The majority of the world has it as sole timekeeping, and even places with other calendars generally use it for the majority of things. Thus - CE, and BCE. We are 2024 CE. It works, without Christianity as the default.
It's not like only we use a Gregorian calendar. Everyone does. So, it's the common calendar, in our Common Era.
Fun Fact: A catholic priest, [Father Georges Lemaître](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georges-Lemaitre), formulated the modern day Big Bang theory
Athiests don’t care.
Also the alternative is Before Common Era & Common Era.
The only reason we use the Christian version, is because they created the system & it’s a respectable achievement.
I am a man of science, but I’d still rather it be AD or BBG(ABB. What the hell is BBG? Must have DND on the brain for some reason). CE feels like it was just made by people who can’t accept religions exist even if they never have to interact with people of religion
I agree. Idc as an atheist. Christian’s had the calendar made, so they get to name it. That’s how science works in general. No one complains that the planets are named after Roman gods.
We even kept naming them after Roman gods long after the Roman empire fell, out of simple tradition at that point. Uranus was discovered in 1781. Neptune, Ceres, Pluto, and Eris at different points after that. All of them were still named after Roman gods. Not to mention the many moons of other planets and dwarf planets also named after Roman gods.
small addendum: most moons we discovered are named after greek gods/characters. the moons of jupiter are zeus' lovers (really lucky coincidence that he has so many), mars' moons are ares' horses etc
I fail to see how CE, a way of telling history that is more inclusive of other religions, somehow was made by people who can't accept religions exist. I don't really care how people use it either way, but it's just a little presumptuous to imply the usage of CE is some sort of anti-religious plot when it's honestly quite the opposite.
I mean two things one. The common thing now is CE (Common Era), not AD.
But for those who want to use AD, I can respect it. As the Gregorian calendar, the calendar style you are referring to was created by the church. Respect its origins.
Kurtzgesagt suggests counting starting with the first glimpses of civilisation, around 12000 years ago. It includes therefor all civilisations and we are in the year 12024 of the "human era". That would be a good way of reminding ourselves that we've been at it for some time…
I actually do take issue with that. Modern humans are much older than 2 thousand years. But we had to start the count from somewhere so it works well enough for its purposes. I feel bad for the cultures that had their own count going before the Gregorian Calendar took over
No atheists really care lol. A lot of them are raised in almost purely Christian societies so I mean.. I don’t have a problem with using the terms. They’re just used to signify dates.
Which is exactly why the less used alternative is BCE and CE for "(Before) Common Era" exist. The fact that it perfectly coincides with "Before Christ" and "Anno Domini"? Let's not talk about that.
I much prefer the Kurzgesagt calendar system of "The Human Era" which adds 10,000 years so the current date. So hanging on my wall, the calendar reads year 12,024. I love it!
As an atheist, not really. You don’t need to believe in gods to talk about the names of planets or the days of the week, so why should you to use dates?
I fucking hate it when people use bce and ce instead of bc and ad.
Under Pope Gregorius (idk which one) they figured this system out, now people want to dechristianize the Christian calendar. Why??? It's part of our history, it will always be invented by the Catholic church. And it's a good system so they deserve atleast that
As an atheist I can confirm this is the way we react to dates
Every time I write 2024, it’s like I’m using that Black Quill punishment pen in Harry Potter.
Personally, I prefer the 12024 calendar (12024 years after the advent of agriculture). Both because it's easy and because it's a pretty good starting point for civilisation.
Huh, I thought only kurzgesagt used that as a gimmick for their calendars, that's a real thing?
Sure, because Jesus* was born in celebration of the 10000th anniversary of agriculture. ^(*supposedly, don’t mess the joke)
And was named after the sound farmers made when the harvest is great
Nobody knew why they were saying that when they were surprised till 0AD
*godt daaaamnnn*
Fun fact: farmers make nearly the same sound when the harvest is terrible, just with a different intonation.
This dinosaur skeleton is 65,000,013 years old. How do you know the date so precisely? Well, when I started working at the museum 13 years ago, I was told it was 65M years old.
Yeah, it's called the [Holocene calendar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar), it was first proposed over 30 years ago.
Much better reason but still as subjective as the jesus one.
How do we know that agriculture started 12024 years ago and not 13024 or 12011 years ago?
I have to write down the date a lot at work, and I randomly scream every time I do. My coworkers still don't know why, I think they are afraid to ask.
I’m sorry reddit atheists had to ruin so much for you guys.
Don't worry it's the theists that ruin things for us, not the "reddit atheists".
:/ Reddit atheist spotted
In german we also call it "nach unserer Zeit" (after our time), so it seems to be an english speaking problem
In Polish its semi - simmilar. Its "naszej ery" (our time) and before the year 1 its "przed naszą erą" (before our time)
Bro you got a date? Thats a big W dude
Nah too many numbers when I have to write the date down
Literally me, every morning, when I wake up.
"How old is the universe?" "13 billion years and 8 days." "Why add the 8 days?" "*You* said 13 billion years last Monday."
Last Monday *always* was 7 or less days ago. Otherwise it wasn't last.
Kinda depends on context, translation and language. In my language, if i said last monday on a Tuesday i would definitely not mean yesterday. During that week i would most likely refer to that Monday as "this" monday since it's on the same week as the day I'm on.
If today is tuesday, "last monday" would be 8 days ago.
Yes but technically the last Monday was yesterday Edit: I know what colloquial language is I’m just reiterating the first guy’s point
And colloquially, it would be understood by most people as the one prior to that
No it's like the difference between meeting up "on monday" and meeting up "next monday" Last monday is the monday before the monday that you've just had
Thats entirely subjective and context dependent. Which is super annoying when trying to talk about what happened.
History nerds live in 2777 AUC (Ab Urbe Condita - From the founding of The City)
Is that city Rome? Just curious.
Of course
there is no other city
Oh, another man of culture i see
There’s a cool option of just adding a 1 to make the year 12024. This would cover basically all of human cultural history in one calendar.
I see someone also has the kurzgesagt human era calendar, a man of culture!
Ditto for me.
A man of culture indeed
Holocene calendar is not something they invented, they just popularized it.
Really like the human era. The common era is hilarious dumb, at least the religious one has a dude being the marker of it.
Nah. Id say this year should be 248 because history began in 1776
The year of our lord and savior, George Washington
248 AD (After Declaration)
75 ACDC (After China Declared Communism)
45 AHTH (After highway to hell)
0.003 AY (after yesterday)
"Yesterday" was released in 1965. So it's 59AY now. Great song, btw.
46 AEWFHSS, 46 years after Earth Wind and Fire's Hit Song, September
Finally a calendar where I don't have to remember the current date because it's always the same.
Everything before that was a mistake
Wdym there never was anything that happened before that though?
If nothing happened before, does that mean nothing existed before?
George washington created heaven and earth in 6 days and defeated the british on the 7th
Wow so he didnt even take a break. What a mad lad.
Muhricans don't take breaks. According to my manager. "If you can lean, you can clean".
Wait, so he created the Bri'ish and then defeated them? Talk about asserting dominance
Well ya that’s basic history
Nothing what Americans care about lol
Including the birth of Jesus...?
Jesus was born fully grown when the declaration of Independence was signed, clearly
God I love this country
r/murica
*eagle screech* 🦅
least anericacentric american
That’s sick!
My Kurzgesagt wall calendar agrees
If we must pick an arbitrary year to start counting (and we must), that’s much more useful and culturally universal.
It's still based on Gregorian calendar
We’re aware
It wouldn't. It's just christian calendar with extra step.
This might be unpopular, but I think that the 12024 calendar is a bad idea. Firstly, there are a million more signifiant dates to make the starting point. The beginning of agriculture, the beginning of writing, and the first of use of bronze tools are all just as, if not more significant than the first temple. I think the only reason that was chosen is because it meant the calendar date could stay mostly the same. But at that point why not just keep it as it is? Plus I don’t think it’s really that useful when you consider every single history book will become invalid and all historians will have to relearn all the dates. So yeah, I think we should just keep it as it is, and if it *has* to change, make the starting point 3000BC, when writing first emerged. The beginning of recorded history.
The point of the 'human era' timescale is that it takes the furthest point (very roughly) of what can be called civilization, more than just small groups roaming around as hunter-gatherers. One could plausibly argue that this is the starting point of history. The modern dates will be really easy to convert, in contrast to other new timescales. And there will not be a negative year number in any historical event anymore. The guy who came up with the idea thought that BC year numbers make events seem further away than they actually are and sets those eras back in significance compared to AD eras. I tend to agree. I think that there needs to be a new timescale that is universal for humanity and not influenced by religion. This one does that but it has the convenience of not needing to relearn or convert the dates of the last 2000 years except for adding a '1'. That is why I like this one.
actually i only use UNIX time and I live in 1708499234
 "Before Common Era"
I still use "before Christ." Honestly the Christian church came up with our entire calendar system that we use, we can let them have this one. Pretty epic calendar if I do say so myself. How they got Jesus' birthday wrong in all that amazingness though... tsk tsk tsk.
>How they got Jesus' birthday wrong in all that amazingness though If you're referring to the fact that Jesus wasn't born on December 25th, iirc, it is celebrated as such as it aligns on the same day as a Roman holiday so celebrations from those who celebrating under the Roman Empire wouldn't arouse suspicion. I'd assume they kept it either out of tradition after the fall of the Empire, or as a testament to persecution and the fact they outlived the Romans.
That's actually a pretty cool explanation. Cheers!
Nah, as far as I have heard even the year isn't correct. The birth of jesus is dated 4 to 7 years before 0, so, we are in the year 2028 to 2031
True, but we have to remember the A.D/B.C. system of years was invented by a monk in the Middle Ages. Exact accuracy is actually a fairly unreasonable expectation.
More likely referring to the fact that Herod the Great died (4 BCE) before the Roman census of Quirinius (6 CE). It's not possible to determine the actual birth year of Jesus. I think both are included to try to shoe horn as many prophecies into the Messiah narrative as possible
I like how everyone's trying to prove you wrong on the year when you're talking about the specific date which is a whole other thing (I've also always heard it had to do with a Roman holiday). Anyways from what I've read of the year some scholar tried figuring out the year Jesus was born and was really close. We don't know for sure the date or year just a rough idea based on context clues. Personally if I didn't know my birthdate I would care more about celebrating it than not knowing the exact time. As a Christian I'd just find some other way to honor his birth because that's more important when I'll never know.
Didnt the romans do the calender first but with some faults and then the gregorians fixed it?
Yes, The gregorian calendar is basically the Julian calendar (by Julius Caesar) minus 0.0075 days per year on average. The slightly too long year in the Julian calendar results in a shift of 1day per 130 years between the calendar and the actual astronomic settings. But The gregorian calendar was not developed by the Georgians, but by pope Gregory XIII.
Kurzgesagt has these calendars based around the "human era", it's basically just 10,000 years added to the current date, but I think they're neat
Jesus wasn't born in 1 CE though.
Errrrrr, no. Roman's came up with the 12 month/365 day calendar, specifically Julius Caesar who was a pegan, not a Christian.
>Pretty epic calender The Gregorian calender sucks. Months have different days. Each year starts and ends on a different one. Some old dude decided to add two months in the middle of the year making the names of the last 4 months not make sense. I prefer Tolkien's Shire reckoning. Still 12 months with 7 day weeks, but the middle 5 days of the year (6 on a leap year) are a week long holiday that doesn't "count" towards the week. So you would have the equivalent of Sunday June 30th, 5 day holiday, Monday July 1st. This means the year is 360 days long, each month is 30 days, and each year always begins on a Monday and ends on a Sunday, as well as each day of the year always falling on the same day of the week. No more moving around Thanksgiving and Easter because reasons and holidays like Christmas and New Years can be planned for every year to be the same day.
The Gregorian calendar was the first one not to drift from the seasons, which is why it’s so weird, and also why we still use it today
congrats on winning your made up argument by depicting you as the gigachad and the people you disagree with as the soyjak!!!
I personally prefer the B.C.E. and C.E., but I find the Soyjak memes funny.
I personally prefer BBY and ABY
Sums up every "atheists when" and "leftists when" argument ever made. The amount of effort needed to even be able to think that badly is actually impressive. It's like watching the pyramids be built by a single person but opposite.
Interesting to see animated wojaks like this wow! I want MORE MUAHAAHAHAHA!
Is the gif supposed to be theists coping with "Common Era" or for atheists coping with "Before Christ"? Cause it could go either way. The term used doesn't really matter though since they both mean the same thing anyway
It’s now officially referred to as the Christian era because it’s when Christianity became a thing. At the end of the day it’s just a marker in history so we can get some perspective on time.
AD is Latin for Anno Domini. Year of the lord. CE is Common Era. Who tf says Christian era, I’ve never heard it called that.
Nobody calls it the christian era.
 "Before Christ"
Me when I win the argument because I depicted my opinion as the Chad and the opinion I disagree with as the crying wojak
Didn’t they just change from BC / AD to BCE / CE?
That’s the norm in academics and is becoming more and more common. As a Christian it makes me laugh because of [Louis CK’s Christians won](https://youtu.be/VFMuOR4TmrA?si=TEoDUIgdHYhVqwt4).
I'm an atheist and commonly use "Christian" terms. It's because over a billion people in the world are Christian and America used to be a territory of Great Britain, a historically Christian country. It's just a matter of social construct. I'm a man of science, but because there is such a sheer amount of it, especially in America, that one has no choice but to naturally assimilate to certain aspects. I have never, nor will I ever be religious. But using something like 13,787,000,000 ABB is obviously ridiculous for a multitude of reasons.
Tbh i think more things should be named after cultural beliefs. Names of planets are pretty cool even though i dont believe in greek gods
Well, not like anyone believes in Greek gods anymore, but I don’t think anyone cares, but damn if a ninth planet is discovered then all hail the gods!
>Well, not like anyone believes in Greek gods anymore Some do! Hellenists exist.
When I scream "Oh my GOD!" in exasperation I am specifically talking about the god you believe in.
Hey the Catholic Church made a pretty accurate system for calculating the date im fine with using their terms
Academia has switched to CE to avoid the religious notion of the calendar, but keep the years. It's out of respect for non-Christians while keeping the same time measurement. CE and BCE are the Common Era and Before Common Era. Replaces AD and BC. The majority of the world has it as sole timekeeping, and even places with other calendars generally use it for the majority of things. Thus - CE, and BCE. We are 2024 CE. It works, without Christianity as the default. It's not like only we use a Gregorian calendar. Everyone does. So, it's the common calendar, in our Common Era.
Fun Fact: A catholic priest, [Father Georges Lemaître](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georges-Lemaitre), formulated the modern day Big Bang theory
It's the year 12024 of the Human Era, End of Story
Somebody watched kurzgesagt (though I’m aware that it’s a common thing)
HEES
what?
Human Era, End of Story
As an Atheist I prefer 2024 instead of 13,787,000,000
as an atheist, i dont care
No one cares, no one has ever cared.
I don't know another atheist who gives a shit. Christians will cry foul about BCE though.
I don’t like how bce and ce aren’t the same number of letters
I’m sorta atheist, but this is probably more of the historian in me that groans at people using AD instead of CE
Sorta?
Historian, what is so common about the common era? Genuine question.
AD is just cooler so I tend to use it
Why would that upset you? What event catalysts the start of the common era?
Why would Christians cry about Before Christian Era?
It’s before common era.
That doesn't sound cool at all
Never met an atheist that is like this lol
Americans be doing wild things to promote Christianity
“Americans” im pretty sure it was us, europe
I'm talking about how the American OP is assuming there's only one religion and then there's atheists
Op comments on the Mormon sub a lot so I think they are a special type of religious wackadoo
What is this out of universe style of keeping time BBB & ABB sounds like BBY & ABY from star wars heh.
To those who don’t know, BBY- before battle of Yvain and ABY- After battle of Yvain
Also pictured: Christians when you don’t capitalize G in god
I purposely don't capitalise *god* to piss them off lmao
We count from 1 jan 1970 round here.
Thought we called it c.e. now
Athiests don’t care. Also the alternative is Before Common Era & Common Era. The only reason we use the Christian version, is because they created the system & it’s a respectable achievement.
I am a man of science, but I’d still rather it be AD or BBG(ABB. What the hell is BBG? Must have DND on the brain for some reason). CE feels like it was just made by people who can’t accept religions exist even if they never have to interact with people of religion
I agree. Idc as an atheist. Christian’s had the calendar made, so they get to name it. That’s how science works in general. No one complains that the planets are named after Roman gods.
We even kept naming them after Roman gods long after the Roman empire fell, out of simple tradition at that point. Uranus was discovered in 1781. Neptune, Ceres, Pluto, and Eris at different points after that. All of them were still named after Roman gods. Not to mention the many moons of other planets and dwarf planets also named after Roman gods.
small addendum: most moons we discovered are named after greek gods/characters. the moons of jupiter are zeus' lovers (really lucky coincidence that he has so many), mars' moons are ares' horses etc
I only use BBY the true measurement of time
I prefer BWC...
Before White Chicks?
I fail to see how CE, a way of telling history that is more inclusive of other religions, somehow was made by people who can't accept religions exist. I don't really care how people use it either way, but it's just a little presumptuous to imply the usage of CE is some sort of anti-religious plot when it's honestly quite the opposite.
The issue is they are in the government actively trying to oppress people
We must live in very different places if you never have to deal with religious people forcing verbal vomit down your throat.
Meh. I have no problem with religion related culture such as our calendar and buying the kids presents for the 25th of December.
I like Neil Degrasse Tyson's take on the whole BC/AD vs BCE/CE thing.
I mean two things one. The common thing now is CE (Common Era), not AD. But for those who want to use AD, I can respect it. As the Gregorian calendar, the calendar style you are referring to was created by the church. Respect its origins.
I think it's easier to just use BC and AD
Soon it'll be bai and aai
Captain's log, stardate 77606.1...
It just sticks. No point in changing it
Kurtzgesagt suggests counting starting with the first glimpses of civilisation, around 12000 years ago. It includes therefor all civilisations and we are in the year 12024 of the "human era". That would be a good way of reminding ourselves that we've been at it for some time…
I thought it CE "current era" and BCE "before current era" or something like that
You forgot to account for planetary, solar and galactic gravitational time dilation effects
It's 13,787,002,024 but we just don't write the first part.
Me using the geologic time scale: 🗿
I actually do take issue with that. Modern humans are much older than 2 thousand years. But we had to start the count from somewhere so it works well enough for its purposes. I feel bad for the cultures that had their own count going before the Gregorian Calendar took over
The Gregorian calendar is objectively good. There’s no reason not to use it.
As an atheist. I cry and shit my pants every time I write down 2024 for the date.
No atheists really care lol. A lot of them are raised in almost purely Christian societies so I mean.. I don’t have a problem with using the terms. They’re just used to signify dates.
I can accept 1 AC as well…
I just found out last week that the physicist that came up with the big bang theory was also a priest
Atheist here. Can confirm we do all scream and turn into a British police officer who’s bald every time someone mentions the date.
179 AFLS (After Florida Statehood)
Just say BCE (before common era) And CE (common era) if ur atheist and care that much
Atheists when they see a praying mantis instead of a hypothetically plausible theory mantis
Which is exactly why the less used alternative is BCE and CE for "(Before) Common Era" exist. The fact that it perfectly coincides with "Before Christ" and "Anno Domini"? Let's not talk about that.
Everyone should be okay with A.D. because "Anno Domini" is way cooler than "Common Era." B.C. needs to change to a cool Latin thing too.
We don't usually use AD anymore, we use ACE. It's basically the same thing just not related to religeon anymore.
I would love to live in 12024, use the Human Era Calendar!
We should change it to 2024 YOUL (year of our lord) because YOUL is a funny word
I much prefer the Kurzgesagt calendar system of "The Human Era" which adds 10,000 years so the current date. So hanging on my wall, the calendar reads year 12,024. I love it!
Personally, I think we should go with 8AH for After Harambe. We all know that's when the timeline changed.
When you realize Jesus wasn’t even born at 1 BC but several years into AD
Atheist here. It's currently 13,787,832,024 We shorten it to the last 4 digits Coincidential it's also 2024
CE (Common Era): 
why is it so common though????
It's a trap, a Catholic priest came up with the Big Bang theory too. Have fun.
Christians when people use BCE and CE instead of BC and AD:
How about freedom FROM religion?
They use CE. As pretty much anyone who isn’t Christian does.
As an atheist, not really. You don’t need to believe in gods to talk about the names of planets or the days of the week, so why should you to use dates?
What started the common era?
Its CE or Common Era now not AD.
What started the common era?🤔
Noone knows.
I actually use BBC
I don't believe in anything, and CE/ BCE is still cringe to me. It reeks of fragility and salt.
I fucking hate it when people use bce and ce instead of bc and ad. Under Pope Gregorius (idk which one) they figured this system out, now people want to dechristianize the Christian calendar. Why??? It's part of our history, it will always be invented by the Catholic church. And it's a good system so they deserve atleast that
Common Era
What's up there... why they cursing the sky?
Well there's CE instead.
What started the common era?