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See also [[Alternative Calendar]], for ways of reckoning time in-universe. Events that prompt these alternatives have [[Hit So Hard the Calendar Felt It]].
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** Fans tend to attempt to create the regular version of this with at least the Universal Century timeline, since there are a handful of specific dates given that are tied to a day of the week. This can be used to narrow down 2045 as the earliest possible year for the switch to the new calendar.
** The After Colony calendar in ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' on the other hand, is implied begin from the launch of Skylab in the 1970s. Though it's never mentioned exactly when AC replaced AD.
* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' measures time based on the new Mid-Childa calendar, which according to the Fate's [[As You Know]] talk in episode 14 of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'', began during the period when physical-based weapons were banned and [[Magitek]] became the standard. This was the time when the TSAB had fully established themselves, building their main branch in Dimensional Space and their land-based HQ in Mid-Childa.
* When Kagome travels to the past in ''[[Inuyasha]]'', she plops down into Japan's Warring States era, a century of continuous civil war and bloodshed. Because no exact dates are mentioned it would be anyone's guess as to what year it is when she goes back in time. The main clue the fandom has used to try to put a date to the era comes from one of the very first episodes, where a young samurai mentions real life Japanese warlord [[Oda Nobunaga]], but considers him to be unimportant and an idiot.<ref>Nobunaga eventually brutally conquered much of Japan and his successors finished the unification and established the government that ran the country for the next 250 years</ref> Since there is a rather short window of time where Nobunaga was known, but ''not'' as a terrifying, ruthless, slaughter-happy [[Badass]], fandom uses this to get a rough idea of when the story is supposed to be taking place.
* The Year Zero event in ''[[One Piece]]'' is generally portrayed as the founding of the World Government, which occurred approximately 800 years ago. This event is the foundation of the ''One Piece'' world as it is now and the end of the Blank Century, a period which has very few surviving historical records and is illegal to study.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has the Shinra Company setting the year zero of its new era at the end of the Wutai War, six years before the start of the game. While not very important in the original game, games set in the prequel portion of the Compilation often make note of the date.
* ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'' and it's sequel, ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Radiant Dawn]]'' did this a little differently. There is a year 0, but there are years ''before'' that are listed as negative. [http://serenesforest.net/general/timeline10.html Year -155 is the earliest.]
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' universe has several Year Zeros, at the beginning of every new 'era'. It's common practice to put the era before the year when announcing a date, for example "Third Era, Year 433". The first four games take place in the 5th century of the third era (roughly - ''Arena'' covers the last year of the 4th century), and ''Skyrim'' takes place in the third century of the fourth era.
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== Real Life ==
* Every so often, this happens with revolutionary governments who want to stress a complete break with The Way Things Have Been Done Heretofore. The [[Ur Example]] of this may be from the French Revolution, particularly after the ascendancy of the Jacobins, when a new—Metric—calendar was introduced, restarting the year numbering at Year 1. Similarly, the "Juche" calendar of North Korea has been recalibrated from Kim Il-Sung's birth year.
** A literal example of this trope comes from Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot declared 1975, the year that that Khmer Rouge insurgents were able to seize control of the Cambodian state, to be Year Zero of a new calendar.
* This was averted by the Anno Domini dating system used throughout the world. There is no year zero, and it is one of the calendar's base assumptions. Things that happened before the birth of Christ (the starting point of the calendar) are calculated in negative years Before Christ, counting down not to Year Zero, but AD 1: that is, there is a direct skip from 1 BC straight to AD 1! (Due to errors in calculations, the actual AD 1 may lie anywhere from 6 BC to AD 6).
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