Late Night Time Measurement Silliness
I have decided that for personal use I will henceforth declare the current epoch as having started from the founding of Rome, rather than the traditional birth of Christ thing people have been going with for so long. Employing the appropriate Latin phrase ab urbe condita (from the founding of the City [of Rome], an improved phrasing for the original anno urbis conditae, in the year of the founding of the City), this year is 2760 AUC, rather than the traditional AD 2007. (If, in the traditional parlance, Rome was founded in 753 BC, then adding 753 to AD year X will yield the year AUC.)
I won't go quite so far as to start using Roman numerals, though. :)
I won't go quite so far as to start using Roman numerals, though. :)