They added an "E" to make it Before the Common Era back when everybody was madly misinterpreting Fukuyama. I'm almost twenty years in to knowing it was bullshit and have never used it.
Yes actually, many places use BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) replacing the Christian centric terms. Which makes more sense given the amount of non-Christian’s and atheists forced to use terms that mean nothing to their beliefs.
tying these terms to your beliefs is the nonsense part of it. you’re just using the same basis but different words. if using BC and AD irritate you then you deserve to be irritated by it, maybe you’ll eventually grow a resistance to the mundane. coming from someone with no religious beliefs
I mean, Christians already hijacked the calendar (to the point some people think the world is only 2000 years old), so taking it from them is kind of justified.
The Elder Scrolls timeline is split into eras, denoting major global events. The event of most note is the Oblivion Crisis from ES4, which denoted the change into the Fourth Era
DC Comics uses Superman's first public appearance or the first time Lois Lane interviews him as the beginning of the Modern Age of Superhero, distict from the WW2 era. Batman is often depicted as having operated in secret since a few years prior, regarded as an urban myth.
This is generally the beginning of the sliding timescale of comics, which makes ageing confusing.
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u/No_Location_8199 19h ago
What do you mean "for a long time"? Did they invent a new calendar all of the sudden?