When some people insist on putting marvel mystery oil in their SUs, modern
sythetics in their engines, diodes in their ignition warning light wiring,
and electronic flasher units in place of their 'failure detecting' units,
why should anyone bother about exactly which year starts the new millenium,
I wonder?
Hmmm?
-----Original Message-----
From: WSpohn4@aol.com <WSpohn4@aol.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 02 January 1999 06:11
Subject: Year Zero
>OK, once more slowly. There is no year zero. The first year of the
Christian
>era (regardless of when JC may or may not have been born) was year 1.
>At the end of year 1, we have completed one year. Are you all with me so
far,
>because it gets complicated now?
>
>By extrapolation, at the end of year 2000, we will have completed the
2000th
>year (I know this might seem obvious , but some people have trouble with
it),
>ie we will then, at midnight on Dec. 31, enter the 2001st year, and the
21st
>century. Which is, I believe, exactly what Larry (correctly) said.
>
>So you are right in saying that we will be in the 2000th year in the year
>2000, but you failked to make the leap and realize that that year, and the
>century, and the millennium, will only be over on Dec. 31.
>
>Everyone got it? Good.
>
>Bill S.
>
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