The new standard is CE (common era) and BCE (before common era). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era
On 3/2/07, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
