Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 06:05:58 -0800 From: "D.M.P." <dmp@aracnet.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So, what do we call the 00's? Message-ID: <38491FC6.B05E7EF0@aracnet.com> References: <199912040737.XAA08969@implode.root.com>
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David Greenman wrote: > >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. Like the month number denotes which month we're currently progressing through, the year number denotes which year we're currently progressing through. Going on this logic, it won't be until Jan 1, 2001 that 2000 years will have passed and the new millenium begun. -- [dmp@aracnet.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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