If I asked a Roman "what year is it?" what would they tell me? Were years standardized across vast areas? Was the year in India much different from China or Greece? Thanks!
The Christian BC/AD calendar is just one amongst many possible systems of year counting. Various other alternative calendars exist, as we can see from the appropriate section of the FAQ, Other Dating Systems under Calendars, if your browser doesn't automatically take you there. I shall add to that a post by u/Iphikrates, which looks at how the Greeks and the Romans expressed their dates.
Indeed, BC/AD is simply a regnal calendar that refuses to change eras like normal regnal calendars. Multiple other calendar systems remain in use today. Japan still uses a regnal calendar for official purposes.
Posted on this day, Friday 02 April; Tridi 13 Germinal, An CCXXIX; 13 Farvardin of 1400 Solar Hijri; Reiwa 3; 7529 Anno Mundi; the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad; the fifth year of Rodrigo Duterte being President.