"at the end of the calendar year" what year would that be sir? 2005 years since what?
LOL! Great point!
I was doing some research into calendars and timekeeping recently. Calendars can be really complex beasts, especially when attempting to use them to determine precise dates in the distant past. One of the things I found most amusing was the discussions of the terms "BCE" and "CE". I think it is rediculous in the extreme to claim that this is the year 2005 C.E. especially when you consider the question, "what is it that makes that point in time a little over two thousand years ago special enough to claim it as an epochal dividing point in time".
If you are going to do away with the terms, "Before Christ", "Anno Domine", then you really need to pick some other dividing point to mark your base year.