In many ways, it would make more sense to use a leading 1 for A.D. years instead of a leading 0. This way, 1984 would become 11984, and the year when Caesar die

In many ways, it would make more sense to use a leading 1 for A.D. years instead of a leading 0. This way, 1984 would become 11984, and the year when Caesar died, 44 B.C. (which is astronomical year –43) would be the year 09957. With this system, which is known as the Holocene calendar, we can specify any year during the period of history for which we know actual year numbers without having to distinguish between B.C. and A.D. (and deal with quirky off-by-one errors due to skipping the year 0) or use negative numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar