The Hebrews reckoned two evenings of each day, as appears from Ex. 16:12: 30:8; 12:6 (marg.); Lev. 23:5 (marg. R.V., between the two evenings). The first evening was that period when the sun was verging towards setting, and the second evening the moment of actual sunset.
BCE/CE usually refers to the Common Era (the years are the same as AD/BC). That is, BC is usually understood to mean Before the Common Era and CE to mean Common Era, though it is possible to reinterpret the abbreviations as Christian Era..
A.D. is Latin for Anno Domino which means âyear of our Lordâ or âin the year of our Lord.â If you were noting something from about 500 years ago, you would put the date as A.D. 500 but today, many have changed this to C.E. which means Common Era so that they intentionally avoid using the Christian way of dating years.