(October 4, 2012 at 8:23 pm)Polaris Wrote:(October 4, 2012 at 6:28 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I prefer A.D. over B.C. With B.C. you have to think backwards and it'd be -2012 B.C. today. I prefer my years to be positive.
All BCE dates are also inaccurate by four years I believe.
I thought it was changed because Jesus wasn't born in the year zero, and if it were something more arbitrary than directly referencing his birth they could slip the error under the rug, so to speak.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.