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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