[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

Tue May 17 17:34:24 UTC 2005

By the way, Islamic years and solar years have different lengths.
Also, by the way, it's not exactly the number of years since Jesus's
birth, as the writers of the New Testament were racking their brains out
trying to figure what happened when - and made mistakes, of course. This
led to a monk, the one who invented the BC/AD system to begin with, making
a "best guess" on the basis of inconsistent evidence in scripture. The
upshot: now folks think Jesus was born in 4 BCE, or 6 BCE, or some such
year.

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Timwi wrote:

> steven l. rubenstein wrote:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/BCE-CE_Debate
>
> OMG, not again.
>
> You know, I've always found this AD vs. CE debate extremely stupid.
> Like, as if renaming "AD" to "CE" would immediately, suddenly and
> magically remove all connections with any religion! Guys, it's still the
> number of years after Jesus' birth, whether you like it or not.
>
> Also, some people in this discussion have drawn parallels between this
> and imperial units of measurement. HELLOOOO?! It's not really like you
> need to *convert* between the two, you know?! Or maybe I just somehow
> missed that 1 year CE is actually equivalent to 3.573495764 years AD?
>
> Have you thought that there may be alien civilisations out there? Using
> our Earth year as measurement of time is POV!!
>
> Head-shaking,
> Timwi
>
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