Actually, 2001 will signify the END of the first year of this the third
millennium A.C.E. (or AD). Any date from 1/1/2000 until 2001 is a
fractional part of the first year of this millennium (i.e. as of today we
are 6/366 or 1/61 into the first year of the 3rd millennium). Wow, how time
flies! :-)
Most of the confusion comes from the fact that there was no year "zero"
because the powers that were decided one day to switch from the Hebrew
system for numbering the years to one based on the life of Christ. They did
not start at zero they started at one. Also, I believe the zero had not
been "invented" yet. It came later along with algebra from Arabia.
PLEASE NOTE: This is not intended to get us into a rat-hole discussion on
this trivial, totally unimportant subject.
Reid
'79 Spitfire (original owner)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bowen, Patrick A RP2 [mailto:PABowen@sar.med.navy.mil]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 11:10 AM
To: 'Arthur H. Smith'; SPITFIRES
Subject: RE: frum the Jag list
The only problem with that whole conversation is that the decade does not
actually start till next year, along with the millenium it starts at 1 not
0.
Patrick
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