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** Another Year Zero used unofficially in-story is the death of Gold Roger, twenty-four years prior, which started the "Great Pirate Era." Many characters refer to the "current era" and how it started with Roger's death. Some also remark that {{spoiler|Whitebeard}}'s death is yet another Year Zero, creating a new era.
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* After the [[Crisis Crossover]] ''Zero Hour'', [[DC Comics]] put out a timelime showing where different events had happened in then-current continuity relative to "X years ago", thus sidestepping the question of [[Comic Book Time]].
== Fan Works ==
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* Time in ''[[Star Wars]]'' is generally measured in relationship to ''[[A New Hope]]''. This was eventually given a [[Fandom Nod|nod]] with the introduction of an in-universe calendar established by the New Republic based on that same date, specifically, the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Yavin Battle of Yavin].
** Ironically, many fans object to this [[Fandom Nod]], considering the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Endor Battle of Endor] in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' to be a more logical date to base an in-universe calendar around (since the events of ''ROTJ'' had far more in-universe significance).
** The Star Wars BBY/ABY (Before/After Battle of Yavin) calendar differs from most real-life examples in that 1 BBY and 1 ABY are the same year. The transition between BBY and ABY happens at the exact moment that the Death Star was destroyed.
* In ''[[2012]]'', after [[The End of the World as We Know It]], the remains of mankind restart the calendar.
* ''Germania anno zero'' (English trans. ''Germany, Year Zero'') was a 1948 Italian film set in post-WWII Berlin. Protagonist Edmund Kohler [[Coming of Age Story|(age twelve)]] struggles to survive in a chaotic world: little rebuilding has been accomplished, food and necessary supplies are rationed & shortages are common. Edmund escapes the tense, claustrophobic apartment—in which he resides, along with remnants of five families—to the streets, hoping to scavenge useful items or information. [[
== [[Music]] ==
* The album ''Year Zero'' by [[Nine Inch Nails]] is a [[Concept Album]] and associated ARG{{context|reason=Did Nine Inch Nails do a classical music album, or is this ARG something other than the classical-music magazine 'American Record Guide'?}} in which 2022 (15 years after the album's release) has been declared "Year Zero" by a corrupt, far-right U.S. government.▼
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▲* The album ''Year Zero'' by [[Nine Inch Nails]] is a [[Concept Album]] and associated ARG in which 2022 (15 years after the album's release) has been declared "Year Zero" by a corrupt, far-right U.S. government.
* ''[[Andromeda]]'' measures years in Commonwealth Years, which starts with the beginning of the Vedran Empire, making time in the series very non-specific. However, [[All There in the Manual|extended material]] gives the Commonwealth date for when Friedrich Nietzsche published "Thus Spake Zarathustra", a definite date in our time system, so assuming they use the same years as we do (years based on the cycle of Tarn Vedra rather than Earth, though the difference can't be too much), it creates a good guess of the timeline of the series.
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023052513/http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Timeline_(RDM) Battlestar Wiki Timeline] measures time from the Cylon holocaust depicted in the 2004 ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' miniseries. The in-universe calendar is only referred to once, in the season 3 episode "Hero", where readable text in a printed copy of Adama's dossier indicates that the 'present day' of that episode is the Colonial year 21356, {{spoiler|somewhere around the year 148000 B.C.}}
* The current year is never mentioned in any season of ''[[24]]'', but the amount of time between days (16 months between Day 1 and 2, three years between Day 2 and 3, etc) is always established and can be used to determine how many years it has been since Day 1. In addition, fans have used various clues to formulate the following timeline:
** Day 1: Tuesday, March 2, 2004
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** However the real world events that surround the first season would make this timeline slightly incorrect. The first season is meant to take place around one to two years after Jack's mission in Belgrade. The mission took place when Slobodan Milosevic was still in power which would place the mission in either 1999 or 2000.
* Season 2 Finale of ''[[Lost]]'' established that Oceanic 815 crashed and started the whole thing on September 22, 2004, the same day that ''The Pilot, Part 1'' episode was first aired and, you know, started the whole thing. Since then, fans were able to give all events of Seasons 1-4 an exact date based on the clues within the series. However, a [[Time Skip]] followed and events on Seasons 5-6 can only be put down to the year they happen it, with no precise dating except in relation to each other.
== Literature ==
* In the early days of ''[[Harry Potter]]'', fans had to measure time from Harry's first year at Hogwarts. Thankfully for timeline-makers, ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' [[Fandom Nod|threw in a line]] (specifically, Nick's Deathday date) that placed the first book in the 1991-92 school year. ''Deathly Hallows'' established the same time frame through the dates on James and Lily Potter's graves. Frustratingly, this means that Dudley was able to destroy a "Playstation" [[Did Not Do the Research|roughly a year before one could actually be bought]], but that's a throwaway remark and has no bearing on the adaptations.
** The movies throw their own wrench into the timeline by destroying the [[
*** There were further anachronisms (if one considers the films' timeline to be the same as that of the books) in the previous movie, such as a car with a 2006 numberplate being clearly visible in the background when Harry brings Dudley home, and later on Harry flying past the [[wikipedia:London Eye|London Eye]] and the [[wikipedia:Canary Wharf|Canary Wharf]] development—in scenes which (in the books) take place in Summer 1995. (One Canada Square had been built by then, but the other Canary Wharf buildings were delayed because the original developer went bust.) These and other indications have been taken to mean that the films' timeline has been moved on about ten years.
* Though there were always some details here and there that showed in what year the [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories were set, there was always the question on how old was Holmes. Whether he was in his 20's, 30's or 40's during Study In Scarlet (his first appeareance). It wasn't until His Last Bow (which was supposed to be the [[Grand Finale]]) that he decided to give Holmes an age of 60 during 1914, meaning that he was born in 1854 and was 27 years old during Study in Scarlet (set in 1881)
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* The calendar in the Spanish webcomic ''[[5 Elementos]]'' is based on a date called "Day Zero", when there was an all-out war that made the whole country collapse (curiously referred to by no other name than the "Day Zero war"). However, no date has been given so far in the comic, we only know the base of the calendar. (In fact, the author played with this in a chapter, trying to get fans off track in the timeline before {{spoiler|revealing that Rubéola wasn't Matarratas's real sister, when Matarratas's father had been stated to be 3 in the Day Zero.}}) Current{{when}} fan speculation has the first chapter at the year {{spoiler|32}}.
== Real Life ==
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