A question about time

[Original Freak]

I've been meaning to ask this for a while now but I kept forgetting.

If you're talking about 100BC it means 100 years before Christ was Born
If you're talking about 100AD it means 100 years after Christ dies.

What do you call the 30 or so years in between BC and AD?

 

[Riven]

I've been meaning to ask this for a while now but I kept forgetting.

If you're talking about 100BC it means 100 years before Christ was Born
If you're talking about 100AD it means 100 years after Christ dies.

What do you call the 30 or so years in between BC and AD?

AD doesn't mean "after death", it means Anno Domini (The year of the Lord). The first year of Jesus' life is 1 AD. I think so, anyway. I could be wrong.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

AD doesn't mean "after death", it means Anno Domini (The year of the Lord). The first year of Jesus' life is 1 AD. I think so, anyway. I could be wrong.

True

I am told there has been newer calculations which show these dates are wrong.
But it is a convention which works for us. But not in all the other callendars in use in the world.


Terry
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Amen! Truly I say to you: Gather in my name. I am with you.

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

A.D. and B.C. are no Longer P.C.
by Dave Miller, Ph.D.

Western civilization's reckoning of time is based on the Gregorian calendar that reflects a Christian worldview by dating the whole of human history in terms of the birth of Christ. “B.C.” (“Before Christ”) refers to the years that preceded the birth of Christ. “A.D.” (Anno Domini—Latin for “year of our Lord”) refers to the years that have transpired since the birth of Christ.
For years, academicians have solved the “problem” by embracing the designations “C.E.” and “B.C.E.,” i.e., “Common Era” and “Before the Common Era.” Of course, such attempts to restructure our values are designed to avoid “offending” or being “insensitive” to those who do not share the Christian worldview. But the efforts are fraught with self-contradiction, and cannot be sustained consistently. While resorting to C.E./B.C.E. may be more palatable to Jews, atheists, agnostics, Hindus, and Buddhists, what will be done to accommodate the 1.2 billion Muslims—who are immigrating to America in increasing numbers? Their calendar reckons time based on the designation A.H. (after the Hegira). Hegira in Arabic means “flight,” and refers to the year (A.D. 622) that Muhammad fled Mecca and went to Medina, marking the beginning of the Islamic era. Muslims will never be fully content with any other means of reckoning time.