Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 00:42:55 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: adam@whizkidtech.net (G. Adam Stanislav), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? Message-ID: <199912040742.AAA62858@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <199912040737.XAA08969@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Dec 3, 1999 11:37:09 pm"
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David Greenman wrote... > >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. The calendar skips from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D. There's no zero year. So the year before the first full year A.D. was 1 B.C. Although it is roughly based on the birth of Christ, for whatever reason they decided to start numbering at 1 instead of 0. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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