>>Maybe a better idea would be to just say 1938 years ago.<<
Yeah, we could just standardize an HTML module that adds 1 after each year passes. Oh, wait, there's that annoying persistence of *hardcopy*. Oh, well. I guess I'll just keep using AD and BC, and allow a Jewish guy to say CE and BCE. But any time I see someone use CE, I'll know he has difficulty identifying with Christianity.
CE and BCE are obnoxious artifacts of anti-Christian sentiment. The same people who change AD into CE wouldn't dream of altering the meaning of other dating systems. In archaeological circles there are dating methods in common use that don't slander anyone's religiously based dating systems.
BP (before present; present = 1950) has been in use for many years. Under this system 66 AD is the same as 1884 BP.