Now that the west has moved away from Christiantity to securism, wouldn't it be a good idea to stop using the year system that counts up from Jesus Christ's supposed birth? The current year system started by monks in the 5th century, isn't it time we moved on? But what could we change it to? Here are some suggestions:
Ab urbe conidita
AUC means since the founding of Rome. It counts up from when the Ancient Romans thought Rome had been founded by Romulus and Remus, starting in 753 BC, making the current year 2769 AUC.
Counting up from Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece being the birth place of western civilisation, this might be the best place to the start the calender. But the biggest problem is that no one know when it stared so it would be just a case of adding a random 1,000 or so years.
Holocene Calander
This just adds 10,000 years to the current system because the Holoscene Epoch occused back then.
Country specific
Or every country should just have their own calender counting up from some big national event or from when the country was founded. They tried to bring this system in in France after the revolution but it was unpopular. In the USA they could start the calander from independance, so the year there would be 240USAC (United States of America Calender). Every country would have their own calander and when you mentioned a year you'd have to specify which one you were talking about like "I was born on March 10th 200USAC, but moved France in 220USAC, which is also 205FRC. But I spent two years in Australia in the year 99ACT, which is also 209FRC and 226USAC."
Ab urbe conidita
AUC means since the founding of Rome. It counts up from when the Ancient Romans thought Rome had been founded by Romulus and Remus, starting in 753 BC, making the current year 2769 AUC.
Counting up from Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece being the birth place of western civilisation, this might be the best place to the start the calender. But the biggest problem is that no one know when it stared so it would be just a case of adding a random 1,000 or so years.
Holocene Calander
This just adds 10,000 years to the current system because the Holoscene Epoch occused back then.
Country specific
Or every country should just have their own calender counting up from some big national event or from when the country was founded. They tried to bring this system in in France after the revolution but it was unpopular. In the USA they could start the calander from independance, so the year there would be 240USAC (United States of America Calender). Every country would have their own calander and when you mentioned a year you'd have to specify which one you were talking about like "I was born on March 10th 200USAC, but moved France in 220USAC, which is also 205FRC. But I spent two years in Australia in the year 99ACT, which is also 209FRC and 226USAC."




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makes the difference between 0x7fffffff and 0xffffffff, what's a few decades between friends
it's still going to be Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038, the real question is whether it's immediately before or immediately after, and depends on the flight time of a swallow.