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by ivvve 513 days ago
Common Era, a secular alternative to BC and AD.

BCE is "before the common era", and CE is "common era".

I suppose it kind of grandfathers in BC and AD, but I always find it funny that it happens to centre the birth of Jesus anyway.

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Well, epoch'd to Dionysius Exiguus's best guess as to the date of birth some five hundred and twenty odd years later ...