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It's grating to see a major publication quote a date as "1437 AD". It's either "1437 CE" or "AD 1437".

eesmith 9y ago
It may be a house style, and/or it may not be as important as you think. For example, the Wikipedia house style, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Date... , "says: AD may appear before or after a year (AD 106, 106 AD); the other abbreviations appear only after (106 CE, 3700 BCE, 3700 BC)." The Atlantic is at least consistent. "Pre-Islamic Iranian history is believed to range from about 4000 BC to 651 AD." - https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/iran-before-islam-challenging-stereotypes-through-art/255503/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/ir... "But earlier sand blows found underground have been dated—thanks in part to the native pottery shards and charcoal that sandwich them—to 1450 AD, 900 AD and 2350 BC." - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-great-middle-american-earthquake/486623/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-grea... "The dawn of the "Neolithic revolution" around 8,000 BC marks man's transition from hunter-gatherer to food producer. Life" - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/the-iron-in-our-blood-that-keeps-and-kills-us/266936/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/the-iron-... "...which killed about 50 million people in Europe and the Byzantine Empire between 600 and 800 A.D..." - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/disease-plague-of-athens-ebola/403561/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/disease-p... The one exception I found (I only looked at the first few matches) is due to a book titled "EUROPE BETWEEN THE OCEANS: 9000 BC to AD 1000 " - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/12/books-of-the-year/307162/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/12/books-o...
pbhjpbhj 9y ago
I was way more concerned with a modern photo being labelled as if it were taken in 1437 AD. I'm left wondering if that's the nova now, supposedly created in 1437, is it an artistic rendering of how it is supposed to have looked (in negative, b&w, through a telescope), or what?

It may be a house style, and/or it may not be as important as you think. For example, the Wikipedia house style, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Date... , "says: AD may appear before or after a year (AD 106, 106 AD); the other abbreviations appear only after (106 CE, 3700 BCE, 3700 BC)." The Atlantic is at least consistent. "Pre-Islamic Iranian history is believed to range from about 4000 BC to 651 AD." - https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/iran-before-islam-challenging-stereotypes-through-art/255503/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/ir... "But earlier sand blows found underground have been dated—thanks in part to the native pottery shards and charcoal that sandwich them—to 1450 AD, 900 AD and 2350 BC." - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-great-middle-american-earthquake/486623/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-grea... "The dawn of the "Neolithic revolution" around 8,000 BC marks man's transition from hunter-gatherer to food producer. Life" - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/the-iron-in-our-blood-that-keeps-and-kills-us/266936/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/the-iron-... "...which killed about 50 million people in Europe and the Byzantine Empire between 600 and 800 A.D..." - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/disease-plague-of-athens-ebola/403561/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/disease-p... The one exception I found (I only looked at the first few matches) is due to a book titled "EUROPE BETWEEN THE OCEANS: 9000 BC to AD 1000 " - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/12/books-of-the-year/307162/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/12/books-o...

pbhjpbhj 9y ago

I was way more concerned with a modern photo being labelled as if it were taken in 1437 AD. I'm left wondering if that's the nova now, supposedly created in 1437, is it an artistic rendering of how it is supposed to have looked (in negative, b&w, through a telescope), or what?