what does AD means ?

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Anybody understand calender thingies better ?

What does AD means ?

I guess ..AD = After Death of Christ.

The reason I am asking , I found a text written as..In the Buddhist year of 1974 ( 1421 AD )....

Does 1974 = 1421 AD ...really ? whats the math here ?

A.D. means Anno Domini.

"Refers to the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus, with AD denoting years after the start of this epoch, and BC denoting years before the start of this epoch. There is no year zero in this scheme, so the year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC." - Wikipedia

So, the Buddhist year of 1974 would be 1421 C.E. (Common Era, or A.D.: Anno Domini), and the 'math' that you are looking for is:

2009-1421 = 588 years.

Therefore, whatever you are reading occurred 588 years before 2009, our current year.

As pointed out by The_Decryptor, not everybody in the world uses the calendar that we are familiar with.

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Its still pretty confusing thing.

Ok, let me say what i get .

We have various Calender Systems....Most of the countries in the world uses Gregorian calendar ....but still there are some countries where Buddhist_calendar is used ( Example Thailand).

Now , when we say 1421 AD ..I believe this does not come under the above two Calender ...right ? So, we have to convert it to our familiar Calender ....right ?

If that is so, whats 1421 AD in Gregorian calendar ?

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A.D. means Anno Domini.

"Refers to the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus, with AD denoting years after the start of this epoch, and BC denoting years before the start of this epoch. There is no year zero in this scheme, so the year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC." - Wikipedia

So, the Buddhist year of 1974 would be 1421 C.E. (Common Era, or A.D., Anno Domini), and the 'math' that you are looking for is:

2009-1421 = 588 years.

Therefore, whatever you are reading occurred 588 years before 2009, our current year.

As pointed out by The_Decryptor, not everybody in the world uses the calendar that we are familiar with.

Thanks for the information ... that was a hell lot of nice stuffs !

but still, I am not clear with this AD & BC stuff.

do you means AD 's are counted after the birth of Christ ? So, if I say 5 AD ...does that mean the concerned year we are talking is 5 year after the birth of Christ ? Am i correct now ?

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Its still pretty confusing thing.

Ok, let me say what i get .

We have various Calender Systems....Most of the countries in the world uses Gregorian calendar ....but still there are some countries where Buddhist_calendar is used ( Example Thailand).

Now , when we say 1421 AD ..I believe this does not come under the above two Calender ...right ? So, we have to convert it to our familiar Calender ....right ?

If that is so, whats 1421 AD in Gregorian calendar ?

No, 1241 A.D. already denotes that it refers to the year 1241 in the Gregorian calendar.

Thanks for the information ... that was a hell lot of nice stuffs !

but still, I am not clear with this AD & BC stuff.

do you means AD 's are counted after the birth of Christ ? So, if I say 5 AD ...does that mean the concerned year we are talking is 5 year after the birth of Christ ? Am i correct now ?

Yes, that is correct. It is the way it works.

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Thanks for the information ... that was a hell lot of nice stuffs !

but still, I am not clear with this AD & BC stuff.

do you means AD 's are counted after the birth of Christ ? So, if I say 5 AD ...does that mean the concerned year we are talking is 5 year after the birth of Christ ? Am i correct now ?

Well, it just denotes 5 years from an epoch that was decided to be the birth of "christ"

An Epoch is just a common point in time, if we define January 1st, 2000 to be an epoch then we could say it's 9 years "AY2K" (After Year 2000)

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Ok ...Thats good info .

>>>1241 A.D. already denotes that it refers to the year 1241 in the Gregorian calendar.

So, you mean AD/BC's are refers to the year in the Gregorian calendar.....ok....fine...cool.

If that is also true , then we can write current year 2009 as 2009 A.D ...right ? Can we write this ? any problem ?

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Ok ...Thats good info .

>>>1241 A.D. already denotes that it refers to the year 1241 in the Gregorian calendar.

So, you mean AD/BC's are refers to the year in the Gregorian calendar.....ok....fine...cool.

If that is also true , then we can write current year 2009 as 2009 A.D ...right ? Can we write this ? any problem ?

Yes, you can write 2009 A.D., instead of just 2009. :laugh:

A.D. and B.C. are just designations.

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Yes, you can write 2009 A.D., instead of just 2009. :laugh:

A.D. and B.C. are just designations.

ahhh....You made me so happy :)

just one more doubt here.

Suppose, If I say the story is of the time of 10 BC ...that means we are talking about a story of approximately (2009 + 10 )= 2019 years ago . // I did addition because BC = before the birth of Christ ...hence more older

Am I correct in this math ?

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Yes, some of the confusion in this thread is coming from the fact the some do not like to use Christian references. Hence we're seeing terms like Common Era (CE) instead of Anno Domini (AD) and Before Common Era (BCE) instead of Before Christ (BC).

In a multicultural modern world it is a bit insensitive (not to mention stylistically dated) to use BC/AD. You'll find that most encyclopedias and other scholarly work has switched to using BCE/CE.

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ahhh....You made me so happy :)

just one more doubt here.

Suppose, If I say the story is of the time of 10 BC ...that means we are talking about a story of approximately (2009 + 10 )= 2019 years ago . // I did addition because BC = before the birth of Christ ...hence more older

Am I correct in this math ?

Can't see any flaw with it.

You don't really need to use the suffix unless you're referring to a date B.C (or BCE, whatever), nobody's going to think World War 2 started in 1939 BC (for example)

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Yes, some of the confusion in this thread is coming from the fact the some do not like to use Christian references. Hence we're seeing terms like Common Era (CE) instead of Anno Domini (AD) and Before Common Era (BCE) instead of Before Christ (BC).

In a multicultural modern world it is a bit insensitive (not to mention stylistically dated) to use BC/AD. You'll find that most encyclopedias and other scholarly work has switched to using BCE/CE.

I don't see a confusion in the thread deriving from the reason that you have stated.

ahhh....You made me so happy :)

just one more doubt here.

Suppose, If I say the story is of the time of 10 BC ...that means we are talking about a story of approximately (2009 + 10 )= 2019 years ago . // I did addition because BC = before the birth of Christ ...hence more older

Am I correct in this math ?

You are correct.

Grand Master

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So, what year did Jesus die?

He supposedly died when he was 33.

If you assume that he was born on year 1 then that would mean the year 34. However, most experts dispute the date of Jesus' birth. It would seem that Jesus was most likely born in 4BC or slightly before. Anything from the year 27 to the year 39 is possible.

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