Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 23:37:09 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: adam@whizkidtech.net (G. Adam Stanislav), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? Message-ID: <199912040737.XAA08969@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Dec 1999 00:25:44 MST." <199912040725.AAA62727@panzer.kdm.org>
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>G. Adam Stanislav wrote... >> At 15:20 03-12-1999 -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >> >> not expect anything to happen throughout the year 2000. Or, that I was the >> >> only one who knows that Y2K = year 2048. >> > >> >Don't you mean 2049? :) >> >> No, I don't. Unless they changed powers of 2 and I missed it. :-) > >Just as the new millennium starts in 2001 because the years were numbered >starting at 1 (1 + 2000 == 2001), 1 + 2048 == 2049. I've heard this argument before (about years starting at 1), but I think it is wrong. The calander is supposedly based on the birthdate of Christ. People don't start out being one year old, so although there was no 'year 0', the time before the first full year would have been measured in smaller units like months and days. If this is the case, then the year 2000 would be the start of the next millenium. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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