Comment by ataturk

Funny, I was just talking to my son about this as we were reading a book about ancient Egypt and he kept coming back to all the "1200 BC" times as he could not understand the negative years, or the counting down to 0 and the more I think about it, it is kind of weird how we use some arbitrary point in time backwards and forwards. It's almost like we're not really any good at keeping track of time at all. And then to start counting years based on "Jesus" when 90% of the world has never been Christian and never will be, it just seems to presume a whole lot that isn't even there.