When did the general public become aware of the year they were living in?

by chuckloscopy
WelfOnTheShelf

Good question, since it just turned 5783 a couple of weeks ago! Or actually it's 7531 for a few weeks already. Or maybe it's been 1444 for a few months.

Maybe for you it's 2022, but...why? What does it really mean mean to live in any particular numbered year?

Fortunately we get this question pretty frequently - fresh answers are always welcome, but I have a list of some previous answers that may be helpful:

How confident are we that the year is actually and exactly 2016? Is it possible that at some point in the last 2000 years there were any significant timekeeping mistakes? and Did people in the Middle Ages call the year "one thousand and one" or "ten oh one"? by sunagainstgold

At what point did society begin referring to the year in modern terms (2012 etc)? by u/Algernon_Asimov

as well as Algernon Asimov's episode of the AH Podcast, What Year Is It?

and When did people started writing dates as we do now? (specifically the number of the year in its current A.D succession) by me

Nice-Ad-4281

I’m not a historian but I actually went on a binge this morning trying to delve into this. Found an interesting older topic here that might help: Thread