What year is it? In the movie The Matrix, in one of the episodes, Neo asked Morpheus. What year is it now? And Morpheus replied to Neo that no one knows exactly what year it is. The truth is, we really don't know what year it is or in what timeline we are all on. According to modern mythology, it is now 2021. The countdown starts from the moment of the birth of the mythical character Jesus. The birthday of which was calculated by indirect signs of the New Testament. But is it really 2021 now? And was there a time before our era? According to the Byzantine calendar, it is now 7530 from the creation of the world. Eastern Romans believed that the world was created in 5509 BC. How they found out and why so recently is a mystery. According to the Hebrew calendar, it is now 5781. The counting of time also comes from the creation of the world. According to the Buddhist calendar, it is now 2564 since the Buddha left for nirvana. In short, from the date of his death. The year is 2078 on the Indian calendar. The time count is from the beginning of the reign of the Indian king Vikram. According to the Islamic calendar, it is now 1442. Exactly so many years have passed since Muhammad moved to live from Mecca to Medina. According to the Zoroastrian calendar, the year is 3759 since the birth of the prophet Zarathustra. The Mayan calendar ended in the year 3114, which is 2012 according to our Gregorian calendar. And after the new countdown began. Now it is only the 9th year of the new era. According to the Chinese calendar, it is now 4719. The counting time goes from the moment the Emperor Huang-di came to power. Thus, we must admit that we humans live in different time periods. The scariest part of all this is that human civilization has no real actual timeline. In other words, we really don't know what year it is and where to start counting. Because the dating system itself is based on extravagant semi-mythical inferences and conventions. In fact, we do not know how old our civilization is and in what timeline it actually exists. So what year is it?