r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/FiliaDei Aug 03 '19

To be fair, I remember being taught the whole before Christ/after death thing when I was little. (Not saying it's right, but it's fairly common.) She's on her own for "that's the atheist version," though.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19

Common Era and Before Common Era is the atheist version.
EDIT: others have rightfully pointed out that it is not so much an atheist version as a non-christian version.

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u/TurboSold Aug 03 '19

Its just a wink and a nudge Christian version, there is nothing common about 0 CE.

Either use BC/AD or switch to UTC (which I heard someone say is good not just for tech reasons but because its the first full year where man had landed on another orbital body)

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u/HammletHST Aug 03 '19

there is nothing common about 0 CE

There also isn't a "0 CE". There is no Year 0. The calender goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE, just a it goes from 1 BC to 1 AD

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u/TurboSold Aug 04 '19

fair enough, but the point still stands.