There are few things the entire planet has standardized on, one of them being time (with minor exceptions like DST). Regardless of your opinion of religion, to

There are few things the entire planet has standardized on, one of them being time (with minor exceptions like DST). Regardless of your opinion of religion, to revert to debating the epoch again would be net negative. Could you imagine if we had to debate time like we debate the metric vs imperial system? That has been the result of several very expensive technical failures.