2013 CE

Today

It's March 2, 2013. Current time where I am sitting is 23.00 GMT or UT, which is the same thing. And the fact that we are still, in the days of global interconnection by means of a relatively new invention called The Internet, messing around without a globally accepted, understood and universally used definition of 'what time it is' I find mind boggling. Decades into the space age, surrounded by a massive web of global communication satellites that support said interconnection and when we want to make a phone call to a continent, or even another country more than 15 degrees from our present location in the MeatSpace, we still have to calculate and possibly visit one of those nifty time conversion websites to figure out what time it is on the other side of the device. My MMORPG's are always patching when I'm not expecting it because I didn't get that Mountain Time or some such right. How bizarre is that? And it gets worse.
We still don't, as I have discovered. get our dating right or at least consistent. If you now trawl through Wikipedia, casting the net wide, you will find things like XXX years (BP) or (BCE) or (BC) where BP stands for 'Before Present' which is rather vague. [Update 2013-04-29: "standard practice is to use 1 January 1950 as the origin of the age scale, reflecting the fact that radiocarbon dating became practicable in the 1950s. The abbreviation "BP", with the same meaning, has also been interpreted as "Before Physics"; that is, before nuclear weapons testing artificially altered the proportion of the carbon isotopes in the atmosphere. [e01]]
BCE stands for Before Current Era and is the same, in numbers, as BC which means Before Christ. Obviously, Before Common Era beats BC by a long stretch for all the obvious reasons and is therefore vehemently opposed by a shit-load of people who have decided, for various reasons, to do away with reason.
Oh, by the way, we have reached 00.13 03/03/13 which is a lot of threes and prime numbers and in the calendar I am accustomed to. No, I didn't take that long to write this, I took a shower, in case you wonder. But the Calendar I'm using is not the same everybody is using. There's a shit-load of calendars as well. There's also a shit-load of date notations. And time notations. I might return to that later. [update: 2013-03-08: That is the official notation as per ISO 8601. I discovered this on XKCD after I embarked on writing this while it was posted a little while before. I always go to XKCD and then hit 'previous' until I reach one I've seen before. It lives here. Coincidences, huh?] For now it suffices to state that this weird illogical system of dates and times support this uncanny feeling I have that too many things just don't add up, don't make sense. Al those things combined make me conclude that the world as we know it can't be real.
So, if I was in the business of proposing, I'd propose to dump all that old junk and instead of patching, do something new. Which makes 1991 the year 0, august the month 1 and day 6 day 1.[1] We'll redesign the calender in a reasonable fashion later.
If you wonder why that date is selected, you might be reading the wrong article. Or maybe you should seriously consider reading the rest of the article. If you know why this date is selected, you probably have decided that already and have probably stopped reading a while ago.
[1] "On August 6, 1991,[9] Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.[10] This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet." source
By the way, if you think I am confusing HTML or the World Wide Web with The Internet you are wrong.
[e01] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_Present