From Alternative History

that has given the world an order and culture that has unified all of humanity as a single people.

All of humanity? That seems rather ethnocentric to me. Western Europe, sure. - Nik 02:41, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It is used as a convenient (non-religious based) time scale for discussions of alternate histories.

Only non-religious if you consider Roman mythology to be non-religious ... and you still have the ethnocentric problem - Nik 02:41, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

PS this would be OTL 753 BC.--Henneth 03:00, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ethnocentric, right... and OTL'ish. For my Zera timeline, or actually any timeline before Rome becomes the major power in the Mediterranean (even post AUC in Western Europe, e.g. a possible path for Industrial Revolution, 350 BC) AUC is not more appropiate than AD/BC or CE/BCE. Even post-Christian POD... I might use AD/BC for convenience in Chinese World, but if there is a standard calendar *there* will probably not be Christian and surely not Roman.

— Carlos Th... who cannot stop relating "AUC" with something else.

Probably a Chinese-based calendar for Chinese World. Thus, this is the year 21 of Cycle 79 (or Cycle 78) - Nik 19:54, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"All of humanity" - yes, that's BS. "Non-religious", on the other hand, makes perfect sense, since the starting point of this reckoning is not a religious event, but the founding of a major city. That's the whole point, and it doesn't have to be Rome; for convinience, AUC can be used for any reckoning starting with a similar event. Michael riber 18:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)