In 1990 a person was 15 years old. In 1995 that same person was 10 years old. How was this possible?

demosthenes

This person was born in 2005 B.C.E. Jun 21 01, 6:17 PM

finlady

In defense of demosthenes (he,she) is not talking Georgian calendar, but I believe it's a Chinese calendar. I tried to find out what it stands for but could not find anything, but it is used in the sites about Chinese calendars. B.C.E. is not referring to 'Before Christ' like our calendar does though. Jun 21 01, 10:50 PM

l3i7l

Politically Correct-ness has struck everywhere. The reasoning goes that since other, non-Christian, cultures reckon calendar time differently, 'Before Christ' should now read 'Before (the) Christian Era', so as not to so offend others. My vote is: to heck with trying to sound nice, let's start acting nice toward each other. Jun 21 01, 10:58 PM

Brainy Blonde

Just to get to the bottom of BC and AD, Before Christ, After Death and now BCE, I decided to find out for myself and share it with anyone else who would like to know. The correct way to write today's date is June 21, AD 2001 or June 12, 2001 CE AD stands for Anno Domini, which is latin for 'the year of our lord' and put before the number of the year. Since the whole world is not Christian, it is inconsiderate, (and arrogant, my opinion) CE can be used, which means Common Era and is put after the number of the year. While calling this year 2001 AD may be the most common and accepted way, it is technically and politically incorrect. That brings us to BC and BCE. BC stands for Before Christ, so you run into the same problem you have with AD. It is inconsiderate for non-christians, and because the 'experts' in this area have decide that Jesus was actually born 4-6 years earlier than previously thought, it is just plain wrong for Christians. To avoid the silliness of Christians having to say Christ was born 4 years before Christ, the term Before Common Era, or BCE is used. Then a person could say, Christ was born around the year 4 BCE, possibly as early as 6 BCE. Sounds much better, don't you think. To make things even more complicated, this is all based on the Gregoria calender, which is not the only calender in use at this time. It is the more common one though. To find out more about that you are on your own! Therefore, the accurate and correct answer to this question, for everyone is, this person was born in 2005 BCE, just as demosthenes said. I found all this information at: www.radix.net/(squiggly line or tilde)dglenn/defs/ce.html I used the terms in brackets because as many of us know if you type it, it comes out as %7E. Jun 22 01, 12:33 AM

finlady

Thank you BB I never heard or read the BCE Before Common Era before. That is really interesting and it makes sense. Before I made my reply I surfed the net but could not find anything. Thanks Jun 22 01, 1:35 AM