So What Year Is It?

Motley Crue

It's 2010AD right?

Of course, AD stands for Anno Domini - not actually 'After Death' as common misconception would have you believe but 'the year of our Lord' as we have counted 2010 onwards since he was born

Those here who aren't followers of Christ - do you adopt this date out of convenience or do you simply have your own method of calculating the years? Is the date something that, although religious, is so etched into our culture that we simply have to accept it in order to live our lives with clarity.

So, tell me this then, what year is it really? I mean, if we forget Christian religion, what year are we in? Do the Muslim Faith believe it is not in fact 2010 and perhaps another year? Do another faith count from a rough estimate of the creation of the Earth - or does a religion count down to the moment when their time will come?

Sanjuro

Motley Crue wrote: »

Those here who aren't followers of Christ - do you adopt this date out of convenience or do you simply have your own method of calculating the years? Is the date something that, although religious, is so etched into our culture that we simply have to accept it in order to live our lives with clarity.

Well, I for one, don't give it any thought what so ever. I'm an atheist, so the religious method of calculating dates and what not have no bearing on my life what so ever. But since a great majority of the world considers it 2010, I'll go along with that. Trying to calculate and stick to any other method would just be awkward, especially considering I'd have to correct people every time they brought the date up.

orourkeda

Is this a thread thats going to develop into church bashing because of the calendar we use.

Wazdakka

Well all that god and religion stuff is complete bollox anyway.
But it's a handy way of measuring time.

If we did it by the age of the earth it'd be about the year 4.54 billion ABB. (After Big bang)

Ickle Magoo

13/08/4,550,000,000 (approx)

Baring in mind the calender has changed, the current system is not an accurate christian representation either. It's just a universal system we can work from.

kingtut

Motley Crue wrote: »

Of course, AD stands for Anno Domini - not actually 'After Death' as common misconception would have you believe

I don't know anyone who thinks AD stands for After Death

funk-you

We all know it's '3rd Elul 5770' today.

-Funk

derfderf

Zap: captain log, stardate..ehh.
Kif: ohh, march 12th.
Zap:yes..point two.

Motley Crue

kingtut wrote: »

I don't know anyone who thinks AD stands for After Death

A lot of people I've spoken to, throughout the past few years, had often mistook the initials AD to mean 'After Death' since BC meant Before Christ, my own mother believed this until a few days ago when it came up in conversation.

Sykk

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

13/08/4,550,000,000 (approx)
.

Correctomando

Rowley Birkin QC

Stardate -312385.10286656517.

Archeron

Its the year 27 PLI (post Lizardmen invasion).


Everyone knows time actually only started during the first broadcast of V.

Hasmunch

At leats its not this year....worst one imaginable

sensibleken

The Jewish year is 5770
The muslim year is 1431
Coptic year is 1726
China is year of the Tiger

AD is sometimes replaced with CE (common era) which BCE (before common era) replacing BC

Dravokivich

It's year 26 AD (After Drav)

:pac:

robby^5

As an atheist I've just reconciled the fact that most of our civil calendar is based on religion(s). The Christian god (the year) and Roman gods (the months), but at least days of the week are rooted in reality (planets)

topper75

I couldn't give a frig for Norse gods, but I am cool with today being Friday.

Enough with the daftness please. It's 2010 and you can have whatever beliefs or disbeliefs you want. What do you hope to achieve by changing it? Some 'in your face' to the Christian Brothers who bate you for not having your homework done? Militant atheism is tiresome, and second only to religious zealotry in its capacity to annoy.

Dravokivich

robby^5 wrote: »

As an atheist I've just reconciled the fact that most of our civil calendar is based on the Christian god (the year) or Roman gods (the months), but at least days of the week are rooted in reality (planets)

erm.. don't forget them Orthodox blokes in Russia... their calendar is slightly behind ours...

Donkey Oaty

We are currently in what future historians will call the early Jedwardian period.

sensibleken

robby^5 wrote: »

As an atheist I've just reconciled the fact that most of our civil calendar is based on the Christian god (the year) or Roman gods (the months), but at least days of the week are rooted in reality (planets)

no the days are mostly norse:

T
monday named after the moon
Tuesday named after tiw
wednesday named after woden
thursday named after thor
friday is namded after frea
saturday is named after saturn (roman god)
sunday is named after the sun newspaper

RobbieTheRobber

Its the year of the Tiger and thats the end of it

Dravokivich

sensibleken wrote: »

sunday is named after the sun newspaper

Which doesn't print on a Sunday...

Washington Irving

Wazdakka wrote: »

Well all that god and religion stuff is complete bollox anyway.
But it's a handy way of measuring time.

If we did it by the age of the earth it'd be about the year 4.54 billion ABB. (After Big bang)

orourkeda wrote: »

Is this a thread thats going to develop into church bashing because of the calendar we use.

Yes

topper75

topper75 wrote: »

I couldn't give a frig for Norse gods, but I am cool with today being Friday.

sensibleken wrote: »

friday is namded after frea

Damn you sensibleken, you are undermining my rather clever pun.

I looked it up and we are probably both wrong. According to Wikipedia:

Old Norse Frigg (genitive Friggjar), Old Saxon Fri, and Old English Frig are derived from Common Germanic Frijjō.[5] Frigg is cognate with Sanskrit prīyā́ which means "wife."[5] The root also appears in Old Saxon fri which means "beloved lady", in Swedish as fria ("to propose for marriage") and in Icelandic as frjá which means "to love."[5]

Anyway, the important thing is that I don't have to work for the next two days.

Dravokivich

so today is LoveDay?

sensibleken

topper75 wrote: »

Damn you sensibleken, you are undermining my rather clever pun.

I looked it up and we are probably both wrong. According to Wikipedia:



Anyway, the important thing is that I don't have to work for the next two days.

doh! i didnt get the pun, second cup of coffee should sort this out. and amen to this.

I propose a new calander based on Turkmenbashi (mad fecker) where we name all the days of the week after Brian Cowen's ma.

The year is is 24 AP, After prime. In honour of the sacrifice Optimus Prime made to save the earth from the evil one Megatron who still stalks the earth as Galvatron who is like probably totaly gay too!

bnt

It doesn't matter how the date is given in absolute terms, only that the system is consistent and used by everyone around you. It has no more absolute meaning than the English language: it's not perfect, but it works.

AnonoBoy

More to the point what day is it?

Feels like a Tuesday for some reason.

Woah!

Maybe I shouldn't have double-dropped that acid last weekend.

bonerm

I think I'll start using this : http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_galactic_history

So I guess it's currently "33 ABY" by my reckoning (although it did happen "a long time ago" so now I don't know wtf it is).

kylith

As far as I'm concerned it's 28ME: the 28th year of me!

Black Swan

12.19.17.10.19

Capt'n Midnight

sensibleken wrote: »

The Jewish year is 5770
The muslim year is 1431
Coptic year is 1726
China is year of the Tiger

AD is sometimes replaced with CE (common era) which BCE (before common era) replacing BC

It's 2002 in Ethiopia
It's 4707 or 4647 on the Chinese calendar
In Japan it's H22 ( Heisei 22 ) / imperial year 2670


I find CE / BCE highly offensive , :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: mainly because they only exist so that some people with their own calendars are offended by the use of ours.
NewsFlash - atheists use BC/AD, there was no year Zero (outside Cambodia that is) and we aren't 100% sure what year JC was supposed to have been born but are very sure it's not the one the calendar starts from. Also it's BCE is very similar to CE and so confusing, doubly so for non-english speakers, and is also a character longer so causes typesetting problems.

Terry

Stardate 64081.4 going by TNG time.
http://www.trekguide.com/Stardates.htm#Today The default date on the page is mildly amusing.

sponsoredwalk

I think it's best to call today

13/08/13,600,000,000

The thirteenth of the eighth, thirteen point 6 billion

blogga

Motley Crue wrote: »

It's 2010AD right?

Of course, AD stands for Anno Domini - not actually 'After Death' as common misconception would have you believe but 'the year of our Lord' as we have counted 2010 onwards since he was born

Those here who aren't followers of Christ - do you adopt this date out of convenience or do you simply have your own method of calculating the years? Is the date something that, although religious, is so etched into our culture that we simply have to accept it in order to live our lives with clarity.

So, tell me this then, what year is it really? I mean, if we forget Christian religion, what year are we in? Do the Muslim Faith believe it is not in fact 2010 and perhaps another year? Do another faith count from a rough estimate of the creation of the Earth - or does a religion count down to the moment when their time will come?

Its year one of the Awakening of MotleyCrue; 1 AMC.

Capt'n Midnight

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

12.19.17.10.19

I'm having problems pinging that address

chin_grin

Year you got a WATCH!


<teeeheehee>

robby^5

sensibleken wrote: »

no the days are mostly norse:

T
monday named after the moon
Tuesday named after tiw
wednesday named after woden
thursday named after thor
friday is namded after frea
saturday is named after saturn (roman god)
sunday is named after the sun newspaper

The Norse/Germanic-tribes used the roman system as their basis, using their gods instead. The words we use for the days must be derived from the norse names, but our 7-day week was a Roman invention and based on the planets. But you're right, in name only they are derived from Norse gods and so on down through languages they developed into the words we have for them today.

chin_grin

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I'm having problems pinging that address

Heheheheheheh.

aidan24326

Wazdakka wrote: »

Well all that god and religion stuff is complete bollox anyway.
But it's a handy way of measuring time.

If we did it by the age of the earth it'd be about the year 4.54 billion ABB. (After Big bang)

The earth is believe to be around 4.5 billion years old, the big bang much older than that.

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

I think it's best to call today

13/08/13,600,000,000

The thirteenth of the eighth, thirteen point 6 billion

Correct.

Black Swan

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

I'm having problems pinging that address

"Oh Captain, my Captain" see Long Count (Maya calendar) on this page: http://www.azteccalendar.com/calendar-calculator.html

Seaneh

Shouldn't it be counted from the start of time, ie, start of the expansion on the universe, like 13.75billion years ago, and not the formation of earth (4.54 billion years ago)?

So really wouldn't it be aprox

14/08/13,750,000,000?

peasant

The other interesting question is ...what time is it?

Because unless you live in Greenwich, it's not what it says on your watch.

bonerm

Seaneh wrote: »

Shouldn't it be counted from the start of time, ie, start of the expansion on the universe, like 13.75billion years ago, and not the formation of earth (4.54 billion years ago)?

So really wouldn't it be aprox

14/08/13,750,000,000?

Why tho would you have the 14/8 part (dates/divisions relating to the motions of the Earth) if you're thinking in terms of the universe?

Seaneh

hey, shuddup.

BLACKEN

orourkeda wrote: »

Is this a thread thats going to develop into church bashing because of the calendar we use.

I think thats save to say! :pac:
Bloody christians! :mad:

opinion guy

Motley Crue wrote: »

It's 2010AD right?

Of course, AD stands for Anno Domini - not actually 'After Death' as common misconception would have you believe but 'the year of our Lord' as we have counted 2010 onwards since he was born

Those here who aren't followers of Christ - do you adopt this date out of convenience or do you simply have your own method of calculating the years? Is the date something that, although religious, is so etched into our culture that we simply have to accept it in order to live our lives with clarity.

So, tell me this then, what year is it really? I mean, if we forget Christian religion, what year are we in? Do the Muslim Faith believe it is not in fact 2010 and perhaps another year? Do another faith count from a rough estimate of the creation of the Earth - or does a religion count down to the moment when their time will come?

Arbitrary number is arbitrary.

Next question.

kilmuckridge

Anno Domini is an anachronism, Whose lord is it anyway.

Like p.m. In summer 12:00 until 13:25 is described as 12pm to 1:25 pm despite occurring before the meridian, but are called pm (post meridiem) by convention and I don't see anyone losing sleep over it.

I have no problem with people saying 2010AD, but I just say 2010. Despite my atheism, making up new suffixes like CE just annoys me, like Happy Holidays