Someone over on IMDB is actually more outraged that they aren't calling it 10,000 BP, claiming that "Before Present" is the currently accepted term, despite the fact that a) I'd never heard it before, and b) it's a perfectly ridiculous idea for a dating system. Either you have to keep changing the year in which everything happened (which would, logically, make the film 12,000 BP) or else you're considering a past event to be the defining moment of "present."

I'm also not thrilled with those who think it should be BCE, though it's far less silly. After all, "BCE" is still counting from the same thing; it's just a ridiculous pretence that we're not using a Christocentric dating system. The "common era" started in about 1606, the year that all inhabited continents were in actual contact with one another. To call anything before that a "Common Era" is just denying the facts.

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