JESUS <3

[Anomalocaris]

Any date is someone's supposed date of birth.

Actually, respectable people say BCE, before common era.

I actually prefer A.D. & B.C.  rather than the asinine "common era".  What makes it "common"?  If this is the "common era" what was it before, the "uncommon era", the "pitiful era", or the "rare era"?

what Christians call 1AD happen to have become the shared origin point of the year count of the calendar systems in common use in the majority of the world, even those parts of the world which keep a different traditional calendar for some uses.  So what's wrong with calling the era beginning with the origin of the shared year count common era?  2015 is certain the year of no lord of mine, it is but the 2015 th year in the most commonly used year count. the Only thing significant that 44 BC is truly 44 years before the shared origin of the commonly used calendar year count, so it is 44 years before the common era.

Uncommon era might be the era starting with the origin point of the Japanese traditional year count. It is only used in Japan, and even there it shares spot light with the common era, so comparatively it is rare.

The pitiful era might be era starting with the birth date of some tin pot central Asian dictator, it is pitiful because it would fall out of use the moment the dictator dies.