Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:18:41 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: dg@root.com, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? Message-ID: <19991204111841.B319@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <199912040742.AAA62858@panzer.kdm.org> References: <199912040737.XAA08969@implode.root.com> <199912040742.AAA62858@panzer.kdm.org>
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On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 12:42:55AM -0700, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> 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.
>
Because counting from 1 is convention, its only "purists" like
programmers, mathematicians etc who count from 0. When you are taught
to count at school it's from 1 to 10, not 0 to 9.
> Ken
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> Kenneth Merry
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