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I was just thinking about this . . . should we use a different calendar style?

Perhaps this calendar should be universal . . . we can call it, something (all I can think of is Universal Century).Yes I know the name is ripped off from Gundam but in concept, a universal century would be good

Yet the odds are that we could have the equivalent of a 'Y2K Scare' on this calendar w/our computers as we did 4 yrs ago

We call it CE nowadays. :p
The proper name is the Gregorian calendar.

What's wrong with it?

What's wrong with it?
Nothing, really - however this crossed my mind so I thought I'd make a poll out of it

I have a hard time remembering what damned day of the week it is, let alone what day of the month! I don't need anything else to confuse me!

I was just thinking about this . . . should we use a different calendar style?

Perhaps this calendar should be universal . . . we can call it, something (all I can think of is Universal Century).Yes I know the name is ripped off from Gundam but in concept, a universal century would be good

Yet the odds are that we could have the equivalent of a 'Y2K Scare' on this calendar w/our computers as we did 4 yrs ago
AD. If it aint broke, dont fix it.

It's not really neccessary, since no-one really cares about AD being linked to the birth of some prophet. To invent a new calender, we'd assign great importance to the grounding event that we assign to it. Personally, I don't see how the cop-out solution of BCE/CE is all that bad, considering that.

We call it CE nowadays.

Who are this "we" of which you speak?

Not much wrong with it, other than what a few extreme atheists would have you beleive.
Its off by a few days every now and then, and some Ceasers had to add new months, and its based on biblical dates, but changing it would be like trying to convert the US to Metric units, think about the logistics, you would have to go about and replace everything related to the old system.

We call it CE nowadays. :p
The proper name is the Gregorian calendar.

two problems with that

first off, its confusing, when my school first got text books with BCE and CE we thought it stood for Before Christ's Era and Christ's Era

seccond, although you take God's name out of the date your still measureing the date from the time that Christ walked the earth so it just seems like your trying extra hard to suppress Christianity but failing at it

The gregorian calendar is called such because Pope Gregory was the only one powerful enough to change all the calendars so that we wouldn't keep loosing days over the centuries. I don't know what that has to do with anything, but there you go.

As for the 'suppress Christianity' quip, it's more like acknowledging that not everyone is a Christian. There's a difference between suppression and equalization or neutralization. There's no real difference saying that it's the year 5600 (Jewish), 2750 (Roman), or 2004. It's just that western Civilization has been using a date 2000 years ago, and it's far too much trouble to change it.