New Era Dating System

The New Era Dating System (NED) was created around 1000000 AD to help archives and databases store and find events. By counting in millions of years, the system becomes much easier to sort than the AD system.

The system is counted with the millions of years since 0 AD before the colon, and the thousands of years after the colon (e.g. 25,029,414 AD would be 25:029414 in the NED system. When a more specific date is to be used, there can be a second and third colon for the month and day (e.g. December 5, 2014 AD would be 0:002014:12:4).