Its 2007 years since the birth of Christ, so what year is it in non-christian countries then?

Answer 1

The official Thai calendar is calculated from the beginning of the Buddhist Era in 543 BC. The year 2007 AD is therefore 2550 BE. The year is subdivided into 12 months, the same as the Roman calendar.
The year is 1428 for Islamists.
And it must be in the billions for scientists.
One point to note is that christ wasnt born in 0 BC...this year is wrong as most of the bible is. Jesus was bourne in 4 BC and that just confuses matters even more. Christians as most religions shure know how to mess things up.

First Egyptian 6243
Jewish 5767
Current Maya great cycle 5126
Ab urbe condita 2760
Ancient Babylonian 2756
Buddhist 2550
From Christ's birth in 4 BC 2012
Coptic 1723
Moslem 1428
Persian 1385
French revolutionary 215

Answer 2

It's still 2007. For the most part, everyone in the world uses the Gregorian calendar. Although it is based on the traditional birth date of Jesus Christ in the year 0, it has come to be a standard used throughout the world, regardless of religion... I doubt anyone, even Christians, actively think of the year as the time since Christ's birth when looking at a calendar or calculating their age.

That being said, there are many other calendar systems used throughout the world, although mostly side by side with the Gregorian calendar and not instead of it. Just one example would be in Japan where, in addition to the regular Gregorian calendar, they also use the nengo or Japanese era name system. 2007 is also known as "Heisei 19", or the 19th year of the reign of the Heisei emperor (Akihito).

Also, especially in academic usage, the terms CE (Common Era) and BCE (Before the Common Era) are used instead of AD (Anno Domini, Latin for "in the year of our Lord" [and not "After Death"]) and BC (Before Christ).

Answer 3

It's probably the same cuz in reality(and in the bible it states if u comprehend right), that the world is older than what the year is. They didn't start the calender the day earth came about, and the people who did start the calender had no way of knowing how old the world really was. I'm pretty sure the cave men people started something to do with the calender, which that was after Christs time.

Answer 4

The person who changed the calendar to reflect the year on when jesus was alive and died didn't work the calculations properely, off by 5 years. So the year for most of the world is actually 2012.

The chinese sometimes use a different calendar system, which is celebrated each year during the Chinese New Year, which makes the year we live in now 4732 - the year since the Human species actually started recording things by year.

Answer 5

There are christians in almost all countries, thanks to the European missionaries who had spread the religion all over the world, particularly wherever their countries had colonised... and ultimately ruled. Since the European rulers adopted the Xian calendar, the same is still in vogue in the now independent countries also..

Further the communities in the Eastern Hemisphere are more tolerant of diverse cultures and do not find any contradiction in the essential messages of Love and Tolerance preached by the Prophets - Xian or Islamic, the two major religions introduced by invaders and colonial rulers..

Because the local communities themselves followed different religious denominations - including Budhism, Jainsim (considered agnostic approaches in spirituality), Sikhism, etc besides several approaches of groups of thinkers (collectively called Hinduism) who viewed the Godhead in different ways and found diverse paths to liberation. They generally do not show hostility to other views on spirituality even though they will always consider their own path best for them (since God made them take birth in that community).. Well, this is in answer to someone who said that the Truth is one (it is so in fact but not in the way it is understood to mean one's one path)... Hindu scripture says this too "Truth is one, but saints describe it in different ways..." etc... so this diversity is also God's handiwork ... the different colours, cultures, languages, etc that He had created... He loves to be sung in different tongues and worshipped in different ways ...

As for the primary part of the question, the Xian and Muslim years are alone normally mentioned in the almanac, besides some years like the Mauryan (a royal dyanasty) or Tiruvalluvar (after a Divne Tamil Poet) years, but there is significantly no Hindu year (the most ancient collection of religious group) mentioned numerically. Just a list of 60 names of years are cyclically recounted, to signify the hoary past that can not be counted... For this reason too, the following of the Western Year (AD) is convenient for all.

Answer 6

According to the Asatru Runic calender today is Tyr`s Day, Lenting 13, 2257 RE

Answer 7

Islamic countries do work on a different calendar. My best pal at uni was born in Tehran and her birth date in her passport was something like 1340. I have no idea what calendar they are working from or what date it is now.

Answer 8

It's the same year everywhere. And you're wrong anyways, Christ wasn't born in the year 0.

Answer 9

It's Tuesday, the day named after the god Tīw, so what day it is in non-germanic countries then?

It's March, so what month is it in non-roman countries?

Answer 10

good question, 2007 years since that christian dude died