From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 4 3:19: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABCB314D3F for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 03:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 17727 invoked from network); 4 Dec 1999 11:18:59 -0000 Received: from userah10.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.132.195) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 1999 11:18:59 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id LAA00452; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:18:42 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:18:41 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: dg@root.com, "G. Adam Stanislav" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? Message-ID: <19991204111841.B319@marder-1> References: <199912040737.XAA08969@implode.root.com> <199912040742.AAA62858@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199912040742.AAA62858@panzer.kdm.org> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@kdm.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message