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Is the 0 point for Before Present a different year than the Jesus year? I've never heard it used before.
by xeromal 1y ago
Is the 0 point for Before Present a different year than the Jesus year? I've never heard it used before.
- Neekerer 1y agoIt's actually 1950 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Present?hl=en-US https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Present?hl=en-US
- xeromal 1y agoThank you!
- AlotOfReading 1y agoIsh. It's technically correct for BP and radioisotope dating specifically, but other dating methods don't use the same scale like TL. You'll commonly see kiloanni (ka) used instead and that may or may not be referenced to 1950 depending on the whims of the author.
- IncreasePosts 1y agoThat's right around the time the "modern" era ended and "post-modern" began. Funny we've been making these errors since basically the beginning of time. Looking at you, New Bridge, the oldest bridge in Paris!
- Shadowmist 1y agoIt’s approximately 370 to 408 billion seconds before the Unix epoch.