In which novel is the calendar altered from AD to AF (after ford)?
World State in Brave New World World State in Brave New World The World State is the primary setting of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel "Brave New World". In the novel, the World State is a unified government which administers the entire planet, with a few isolated exceptions. The motto of the World State is "Community, Identity, Stability". The citizens of the World State use a calendar which takes the year 1908 AD ("0 AF" – "After Ford") as its epoch, as this was the first year in which the Model T automobile was produced by the Ford Motor Company. According to the novel, the "Nine Years'
Brave New World as a deity, and characters celebrate Ford Day and swear oaths by his name (e.g., "By Ford!"). In this sense, some fragments of traditional religion are present, such as Christian crosses, which had their tops cut off to be changed to a "T". In England, there is an Arch-Community-Songster of Canterbury, obviously continuing the Archbishop of Canterbury, and in America the "Christian Science Monitor" continues publication as "The Fordian Science Monitor". The World State calendar numbers years in the "AF" era — "Anno Ford" — with the calendar beginning in AD 1908, the year in which Ford's first Model T