Current Era, and Previous Era. The problem scientists have is that they need a stable base to date from, today keeps moving. I guess it could be anything, but until fairly recently most of our science texts were written by Europeans, so that one became the defacto standard.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I wish I could remember where and when I found something that used another > notation. It may have been common era or not. It was an international group, > like the UN, but I don't think it was them. When I first read it I didn't > know > what the heck they were talking about, then the shoe finally fell that it > was a different notation. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
