BC/AD vs. BCE/CE

[fluffy]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
I dunno, why would anybody use BC/AD, if Jesus of Nazareth wasn't born on 1AD, assuming that he actually did exist?

I thought current opinion is that the historical Jesus was born 6AD, but a trawl of net sites give alternate dates ranging from 10BC-6AD!

Don't believe the 25th December bit either...

[Earthling7]

BC/AD, no doubt. As has been said, it's a standard and we're used to it. To change it for political correctness is just whimsy fart talk.

How about changing the name of the metric system to something like MU (measuring Unit)? Giving the French such dominance in measuring can't be politically correct???

BTW, I'm not a believer either...

[fluffy]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
I dunno, why would anybody use BC/AD, if Jesus of Nazareth wasn't born on 1AD, assuming that he actually did exist?

Thinking about it, why isn't his birthyear 0AD, as '1AD' means 'one year after his birth' and '1BC' means 'one year before his birth?? Seems like there is a year missing....

[JellyDonut]

Maybe there should be civ-specific calendars too

The French Revolutionary calendar would increase productivity and unhappiness because of the 10-day week.

Seriously though, that French calendar option was a joke answer. In case you're unfamiliar with it, it was the calendar used from 1793 in the Frrench Revolution until 1806 when Napoleon I changed it back to the traditional calendar and it remained that way, except during the <1 year reign of the Paris Commune of 1871, which used the French Revolutionary calendar. Well, it wasn't as successful as the metric system they invented...

And I corrected the mistake in my earlier post. Whoops! Thanks to those who pointed it out.

[jdd2007]

BC/AD

i dont really care, but it has to be simple ...

[Earthling7]

Originally posted by JellyDonut
The French Revolutionary calendar would increase productivity and unhappiness because of the 10-day week.

HUH??? How can something French increase productivity?

[Father Beast]

Where's the "None of the above" option?

The date should reflect the year of my reign as leader, or president, or whatnot.

and it should reset every time I cahnge governments!!!

[dainbramaged13]

Re: BC/AD vs. BCE/CE

Originally posted by JellyDonut
This was raised on the poll about the positioning of the date...

by me.... thanks for the credit, by the way

it WAS a joke, though... i never thought anyone would actually care

[dainbramaged13]

Originally posted by fluffy


Don't believe the 25th December bit either...

that was made by the romans because of the festival Satrunalia.. they only had to change who they were celebrating instead of when, where, how.. etc... when they started worshipping the Christian God instead of theyre other gods

[Patriqvium]

Let's just keep the traditional BC/AD... if someone's offended because of it, he/she can edit the text files...

[Dauphin]

A more important (i.e even more irrelevant) question is - Do we use the Gregorian, Julian, or modern day calender for accomodating leap years?

[Triped]

BC/AD

I am of the opinion that people who go out of the way to censor any and all references to Christ should be discouraged.

[Adagio]

Hehe, love this poll (sorry I didn't see it before now )

I almost voted "We should use the French Revolutionary calendar!", just to say something else, but then I figured out I have never heard about this so I voted for the BC/AD thingy

[Cookie Monster]

You know it's pretty sad that people are all uppity about the date system. BC/AD is the way it has been and the way it should be period. The BCE/CE date system is the same thing only it doesn't offend atheists. Given what's going on in the world today it's just petty to flip your lid because you see BC/AD. There's too many other petty little things that bother people. Does it really matter? Ask yourself, does political correctness/incorrectness really matter in the end? Live and let be. We got other beastly things to worry about like terrorism.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Gangerolf

Oh so this is just a question of the name, not the numbers. Well, I'll still stick with BC/AD, as BCE/CE seems to be some hypocritical political correct bull**** (no offense).

JellyDonut: You wrote the same about BCE and CE. I presume CE = Common Era?

No, it isn't.

BCE/CE is now the standard and accepted method of date notation among historical scholars. It is done because "Before Christ" is meaningless to 3/5ths of the world.

I think, being a historical simulation of many different civs, CIV3 should either do the BCE/CE or simply start at year 1 and go to 6000, as someone else said on another board.