[GreyFriar]

So when was “the period between about 2,000 B.P. and 900 B.P.?”

B.C. & A.D. have been destroyed by anti-Christian political correctness and was replaced by “BCE” and “CE” Now do we have a new time, and when is the base year? I figure some one will declare it is the number of years before today, thus having an ever shifting date for things in the past.

[null and void]

British Petroleum bought out the rights to “ago”...

[zot]

So when was “the period between about 2,000 B.P. and 900 B.P.?” B.C. & A.D. have been destroyed by anti-Christian political correctness and was replaced by “BCE” and “CE” Now do we have a new time, and when is the base year? I figure some one will declare it is the number of years before today, thus having an ever shifting date for things in the past.

Yeah, this "Before Present" dating bugs me, too.

[SunkenCiv]

B.P. is short for “before present”, and is usually used in reference to radiocarbon dating. And just to be a bit confusing, “present” is 1950, when the RC technique was pioneeered.

Thanks for the great rant, even though I have heard it a lot of times.

BC and AD are still in common use; BCE and CE are used in countries which are not predominantly Christian, like India which has roughly one-seventh of the population of the Earth, and like tiny Israel, which publishes more scholarly papers per capita than any other country (I’m guessing).