[Sca-cooks] No year zero [was Plat]

[Terry Decker]

CE (Common Era) and BCE (Before Common Era) are a fairly recent generally 
accepted usage in academia to divorice religious issues from intellectual 
studies.  The revised Gregorian calendar is used as the base calendar 
because it has been the internationally accepted and used calendar since the 
early 20th Century.

In some cases, "Christian" replaces "Common."

Bear

>  Using CE and BCE came into use later, though I'm not sure exactly when. 
> Is this a 20th C practice, or did it start earlier?  Does anyone out there 
> know?
>
> --Old Marian