Invented .0001000634 MYA
It is high time to resolve the swirling, seething controversy over what to call our years, AD or CE. The two camps remain armed to the teeth or seem to be in no mood for compromise.
For longest time the year 1963 was simply 1963. If we felt the need to tart it up a bit, we called it year 1963 AD. Here, AD is an abbreviation for the Latin words, Anno Domini, or the Year of our Lord. 44 years before year 1 was 44 BC. Here BC is an abbreviation for Before Christ.
But not everyone is a Christian or even okay with dating our times with BC and AD. So many people starting referring to BC as BCE and AD and CE, where BCE means Before Common Era and CE represents Common Era
But these appendages to the years can offend Christians or old-school historians. And this nomenclature doesn’t even change the numbers.
Bah! I will solve everything. We can all agree that if the time is now 4:15pm, then 12 noon is 14,400 SA (seconds ago) and that it is also .0000000005 MYA (million years ago.)
MYA is a time scheme used by archeologists, so it is a system we are all familiar with.
And here it is
MYA (Millions of Years Ago)
*This whole time scheme and table is based on July 8, 2024, 4:15pm being time zero. Please note; all numbers goe up by one second every second, and the MYAs** increase by a corresponding amount.
Years Called
Year SA or Seconds Ago* MYA** Important Event
AD or CE
2024 0 0.0000000000 Now – 4:15p
2024 14,400 0.0000000005 Today, High noon
2024 619,200 0.0000000196 Last Taco Tuesday
2023 21,603,600 0.0000006846 Halloween
1945 2,498,335,200 0.0000791675 VE Day
1924 3,157,761,600 0.0001000634 First cheeseburger made
1918 3,334,237,200 0.0001056556 Armistice Day
1865 5,019,314,400 0.0001590525 Juneteenth
1648 11,856,340,800 0.0003757048 Treaty of Westphalia
1492 16,780,363,200 0.0005317376 Columbus Lands in New World
1066 30,223,706,400 0.0009577315 Battle of Hastings
476 48,856,708,800 0.0015481757 Rome falls to Goths
2,600 145,927,886,400 0.0046241757 First 4-sided Pyramid Built
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