User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Summer 2015/@comment-5837525-20150630184040/@comment-27103443-20150630184334

(My headcanon is that the calendar's "year zero" is when Celestia started to reign...the years are labeled "Year of Harmony. So five hundred years after Celestia first started to lead it would be 500th Year of Harmony. I would say the year would be about the 1000th to 1050th Year of Harmony.)