DICTATOR OF TIME By NELSON S. BOND - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61707/pg61707-images.html

  "This is the year 1940, of course. What's the gag?"

"Gag?" repeated Harg wonderingly. "Oh, yes—gag! A jest; a trick. Why, there is no—er—gag. I was merely attempting to place your position in the world line. You see, this is the year M-62. You would call it—" He pondered briefly. "You would call it—25,983 A.D."