It’s currently year 2023. 10 years ago, it was 2013.

What year was it 2023 years ago? Year 0?? What about 2024 years ago?

  • goober_jam@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Would that mean 5 million years ago it would be 5,000,2023 BC or is there some other format for dates that far back?

    • yoevli@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Technically speaking I think it would be 4,997,978 BCE, but at that point you’re talking about geologic rather than anthropic timescales so you’d more likely just call it 5 mya (5 million years ago).