On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 6:33:02 PM UTC-5, Trevor Wilson wrote:

**Should we not be counting time from the initial event (aka: The Big
Bang)? Or, perhaps, as fundamentalist Christians would have it, some
6,000 years ago?

Of course we should. But, consider the Golden Rule - those what have the gold makes the rules (forgive the vernacular).

As English is the language of Air Traffic Control,
As Greenwich is O Meridian,

Initial Events may start as cultural, but as soon as a certain level of commerce and process uses them, momentum does the rest. The first railroads were in Great Britain and the US, and drove the concept of Time Zones and shared standards.

Commerce and banking drive years, dates, days, weeks and so forth.

Air Traffic Control as it is used today largely developed in WW-II to manage goings and comings on Aircraft Carriers. Although actual formal air-ground communications began in the 1930s in Cleveland of all places. Only the US had any Carriers of any consequence - the system developed, in English, largely in the 1950s with practical and highly efficient radar systems - also developed in/for the military. It is quite likely that "Earth Time" (UTC) will be used (eventualy) for space travel - and for the same reasons. Time Dilation will be an interesting twist on this, however.


6:00 p.m. Saturday, October 23, 4004 BC being the actual date-of-creation, we need to do a reset.