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Re: Millennium bug was: Cold weather starting -- The Drill

To: CIAG6@aol.com
Subject: Re: Millennium bug was: Cold weather starting -- The Drill
From: gofastmg@juno.com (Rick Morrison)
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 20:54:46 EST
On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 16:13:29 EST CIAG6@aol.com writes:
>In a message dated 99-01-01 13:07:16 EST, 
>macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
>writes:
>
><< Lawrie, et al
> the millennium does not start for 1 MORE Year!!.
> It will not be the 21st Century until 1/1/2001. not 1/1/2000. The 
>20th 
> Century did not start until 1/1/1901. Or do we have just 99 years 
>this 
> Century??
> 
> The popular press keeps getting this wrong. 
> Larry Macy
> 78 Midget >>
> Oh, really?   You are assuming that the year number refers to the 
>number of
>years that have been completed.  It actually refers to the year that 
>we are
>in.  Yes, the 2000th year will begin in the year 2000. 
>
And at the end of that 2000th year we will begin the next century. 
 
1/12000 will be the LAST year of this century.

For the century to start on 1/1/2000, the first year would have had to
been year "0". There was no such year. 
Rick Morrison
72 MGBGT
74 Midget


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