The Hebrew calendar is ok, because: 1. It is an inferior practice to start a new year count from zero, for whatever reason. It upsets all counting, all books. Therefore the oldest count is always the first and probably only choice. The Chinese count is now in the year 4607 the Hebrew count is in the year 5768, the christian count is 2007. 2. The Hebrew Calendar was always the highest quality calendar, most precise with the rotation of the Earth (for what I know). 3. The Hebrew Calendar uses a Moon based month, which is an interesting and useful feature for the foreseeable future. The Moon isn't going away any time soon. With the Moon Month, you know the day of the month by looking at the Moon. 4. The future of mankind (is there is to be any) will be a social society of some kind. The Jews are tied in with that in countless ways, even christian morality comes 100% from Judaism, whether the christians admit it or not. It is nonsensical to start a new year count when a new Messiah-cult splits off from Judaism. I note that Christianity is an imploding religion, can't say that surprises me given the heaps of contradictions it has inherited. The Jews have maintained their calendar over more then 5768 years, seems they are doing well in keeping traditions up. [Update: they counted the calender back to an earlier day, but that is not a problem, is it ?) 5. In the past, new year counts were inspired by dramatic changes in the world, such as revolutions and the breaking of slavery (French Revolution). Why not simply get back to the oldest count associated with social justice: the Hebrew Calendar, instead of heaping chaos upon chaos by starting yet new calendars. 6. One very beautiful thing about the Hebrew and Chinese Calendar year counts is that they start around the time that humanity first becomes capable of keeping calendars, or at least when the first cities seems to be emerging (?). 7. The older the count, the less problems with minus-numbers. The older the count, the more coherency between various records. The Hebrew new day starts at Sundown, which is unusual, though. But if that's the way it is, then that's the way it is. Too late to change it now. [Update: it seems that the jews have corrupted the day moment, and/or have an inconsistent way of reading Bereshieth which seems to show the day starts at sunrise - the jews are notably breaking the law of Shabbos by ending the shabbos when it is only half-way through.] Christians should never have changed the Calendar in the first place, which was an act of sectarianism. The Hebrew Calendar was never a sectarian Calendar, it was a National Calendar. The christian count wasn't started to keep dates because they needed to, it was presumably started to get back at the rest of non-christian society and to somehow devalue what came before as insignificant. Such callous acts should be punished. Reverting to the Hebrew Calendar, which conveniently voids much of the "BCE/BE/AD" problems seems a good punishment for creating Calendar chaos. The Hebrew Calendar: - Has a somewhat shorter Month then Christian. - Has the usual 7 days of the week. - The next day name/number starts at sun-down, not at sun-lowest. I'm not positive that this is smart, but ok. - There is sometimes a second Month Adar, to line the Moon rotation up with the Earth rotation around the Sun. - The Months don't rotate around in the Solar year, though they wiggle a little to the extend of one Month (if I get it right). - 12 Month names: Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Sh'vat, Adar, Nisan, Iyyar, Sivan, Tamuz, Av, Elul. Sometimes: Adar II to correct the Moon-Solar year mis-match. - Year count started in the year: 0 Hebrew is minus 3761 Christian (BC). What is wrong with that year zero ? Absolutely nothing. Why did the Hebrews start there: probably a count based on the religious texts, and then kept for a very long period. Why did the Christians start a new count in the year 3761 ? Probably for PR purposes. The year 3761-Hebrew is not the time when people more or less became capable of keeping calendars. Hence, because Hebrew Calendar is associated with moral progress, and because it is oldest, and starts in a good time fitting technical progress on Earth, and voids much of the minus-problem, and is the highest quality calendar - though it has an unusual day-change moment - and because Christian count needs retribution for producing confusion and has most definitely not produced world peace, we should ask Governments to change to it. I'm pretty sure many Jewish people will disagree because of the trouble (or whatever), but this isn't about Judaism, it is about not messing with a perfectly good calendar to begin with. Chinese count seems good as well. The older the year count, the better. Christian is at least a bad choice, or maybe they could change their year number to either Chinese or Hebrew. No doubt these changes will (Stupid of me to worry about this, I just don't like the needless messing with a good Calendar.)