My high school friend Julie Wilshire who is studying english and history at uni told me that BC and AD are no longer used. BCE and CE are now the letters that go with the years. They stand for Before Common Era and Common Era. I've done a tiny bit of general interest on it, 'cos I'm just curious. It seems both systems were developed along time ago and that it's changed for reaons of political correctness seeing as a lot of people aren't Christians anymore and the BC/AD are associated with Christianity. I got this info from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCE, and
http://web.archive.org/web/20071012132841/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20060527/ai_n16436633
I was also interested in looking into it because I thought that maybe historians changes their minds about the historicity of Jesus or something crazy like that...
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