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Subject: Re: The millenium starts Jan 1st 2000 - May be no fact, but is the truth

Author: Mike S.

Date: 10:12:47 12/24/99

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On December 24, 1999 at 12:00:44, Keith Ian Price wrote:
>(...) Of course the calendar started with 1. People
>didn't have computers back then, so starting with 0 didn't make sense to them.
>And equally, of course year 1 represented the first year to pass (like a baby's
>first birthday), so, of course the millenium starts with 2001. (...)

But there existed a year before the year zero, didn't it? Or was there a time
warp from 1 BC to the year 1 ? I don't think so. There was a year before 1, it
just wasn't counted as zero. Just take 1 BC as year zero also, and you have one
hundred years from 1 BC to 100. Our calendar doesn't say this? Who cares...

Regards,
M.Scheidl




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