NationStates Jolt Archive

So we're in the final home stretch of AUC 2760, 2007 CE, Heisei 19, Etos Kosmou 7516, AC 1455, 1428 AH, 5108 HC, 5768 AM, 4704 CY, or AD 2007.

Since it's a little confusing telling just what year it is (And of course the major player, the BC/AD BCE/CE is the Christian calendar), I thought I'd ask the sages of NSG, just when should we place Year 0 and what year is it now anyway?

Year zero should be the creation of the universe, obviously, which puts us at about *counts on fingers* Year 15,276,911,034 now.

I am working on creating my own calendar. Everyone else's sense of time is out of whack......you know that report I won't finish until February is due at midnight?

that's fucked up right there.

Year zero should be set to next 1867.

My birthday. *nods*

That puts us in the nineteenth year.

It's Day 296 of Vetalia 19.

There is no year zero, because zero is the origin. Would you say there was a separate year negative zero? When you count the fingers on your right hand, do you say "Zero, One, Two, Three, Four" and declare that there are four of them? NO!!

There is no year zero, because zero is the origin. Would you say there was a separate year negative zero? When you count the fingers on your right hand, do you say "Zero, One, Two, Three, Four" and declare that there are four of them? NO!!

There's a year zero in my system, but it's only eight months and two weeks long.

July 20th, 1969. nod.

So we're in the final home stretch of AUC 2760, 2007 CE, Heisei 19, Etos Kosmou 7516, AC 1455, 1428 AH, 5108 HC, 5768 AM, 4704 CY, or AD 2007.

Since it's a little confusing telling just what year it is (And of course the major player, the BC/AD BCE/CE is the Christian calendar), I thought I'd ask the sages of NSG, just when should we place Year 0 and what year is it now anyway?

well you could replace year zero every nine thousand years, in which case the most recent one, by the "ce/ad" calendar would be 1844, making this somewhere arround the year 163 b.e. (Baha'i Era)

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Most people today use the Gregorian calendar, which is an improved version of the Julian calendar, so surely the most logical (and religion-neutral) 'Year Zero' would be the year in which the latter system was originally introduced?
(That's somewhere around 54BC[E], I think...)

I think we should confuse things further just for the fun of it. Every country should start it's calendar from the year it was founded/put in its current form.