Author: Albert Silver
Date: 12:52:48 12/24/99
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On December 24, 1999 at 12:00:44, Keith Ian Price wrote:
>On December 24, 1999 at 10:38:33, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On December 24, 1999 at 10:09:34, Charles Unruh wrote:
>>
>>>The millenium does not start till 2001!! 2000 is last year of this millenium.
>>>
>>>2000 is just the cap, 2001 is the beggining man i want to blow up the world i'm
>>>tired of people refusing to acknowledge the obvious ughhh! Merry X-mas
>>>>MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
>>
>>Only if the calendar started with a 1. If on the other hand Year 1 represented
>>the first year to pass (like a baby's first birthday), 2000 is indeed the
>>beginning of the second millenium. The debate is in fact all based on this. I
>>for one believe that Year 1 was the first year to pass, therefore the year 2000
>>is the beginning of the third millenium after Christ.
>>
>> Albert Silver
>
>I must admit I am rather surprised at this statement, Albert. You are normally
>quite logical in your premises. 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. If year 1 was the
>first year to pass in the 1st millenium, year 2001 will be the first year to
>pass in the third millenium.
I thought we were celebrating the beginning of the millenium which after
midnight. After midnight will commence the first second, first minute, and then
the first hour of the third millenium. Do we really need to wait a whole year
into the millenium to celebrate its commencement?
Does a baby's life start when they celebrate their first birthday? Or is it when
they are born?
Well, the argument about the calendar starting at zero or one due to the Romans
seems a bit strange, particularly as I seriously doubt the Romans decided to
create a new calendar based on the man they had just finished crucifying.
> The New York Times editorial staff is having a
>battle over this right now. Their headline on January 1, 1901 was "Welcome to
>The 20th Century". Some of the editors want to have a similar "Welcome to the
>New Millenium" headline on January 1, 2000. But the others ask how will they
>explain the 99-year century?
They can say their 99 year-old peers didn't know what they were talking about.
Albert Silver
>
>kp
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