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Some publications have transitioned to using it exclusively. For example, the 2007 World Almanac was the first edition to switch to BCE/CE, ending a period of 138 years in which the traditional BC/AD dating notation was used. BCE/CE is used by the College Board in its history tests, [59] and by the Norton Anthology of English Literature. Others ...
BCE/CE is some new, revisionist, “PC” system devised by elitist scholars. BCE/CE simply represent another point of view; BCE/CE does not change the fact that we use the Gregorian calendar, which is just as POV. BCE/CE mean the same thing as BC/AD — they are just letters.
BCE/CE vs. BC/AD is a tough debate, but I do have to side with supporting this arguement. MicahMN | Talk 21:49, 16 May 2005 (UTC) Agree that BCE/CE carries less bias toward a religious belief and is therefore more neutral. Rlw 23:47, May 16, 2005 (UTC) I think that CE/BCE is more NPOV than AD/BC.
BCE and CE or BC and AD are written in upper case, unspaced, without a full stop (period), and separated from the numeric year by a space (5 BC, not 5BC). It is advisable to use a non-breaking space. AD appears before or after a year (AD 106, 106 AD); BCE, CE, and BC always appear after (106 CE, 3700 BCE, 3700 BC).
Since 1856, [40] the alternative abbreviations CE and BCE (sometimes written C.E. and B.C.E.) are sometimes used in place of AD and BC. The "Common/Current Era" ("CE") terminology is often preferred by those who desire a term that does not explicitly make religious references but still uses the same epoch as the anno Domini notation.
Opponents of the proposal expressed doubt that BCE/CE was actually neutral, contending that it too promoted a particular viewpoint and in any case merely papered over the system's Christian origins. Accordingly, they argued that considerations of neutrality favored using BC/AD as the most widely recognized system, similar to the way naming ...
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How is this an advantage over CE/BCE? The objection that it retains the Christian POV of dating things based on the birth of Jesus is not lost, the objection of it being "anti-Christian" because it takes Jesus out of the name is not lost, and it has the disadvantage of replacing a widely used system with a more obscure system.