POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Happy Newyear : Re: Happy Newyear Server Time
12 Aug 2024 21:15:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Happy Newyear  
From: Stephen Lavedas
Date: 2 Jan 1999 19:31:13
Message: <368EBA55.D48CE146@virginia.edu>
You realize of course your quest for correctness is doomed to failure. 
I cannot imagine that anyone will care about that technicality when 2000
rolls around.  The symmetry of the number makes it too good to pass
up... oh well...

Steve


Lance Birch wrote:
> 
> Why 2000?  It's not the start of the new millennium... You should make it
> for 2001, so the deadline will be 2000 Dec 31.
> 
> Let's all get this right this time, the new millennium DOES NOT start on the
> year 2000!!!  It starts on the year 2001, 2000 is the last year of the
> current millennium not the first year of the new one.  If the world gets
> this wrong, we'll be the first generation of people in history to short
> change time by a year...
> 
> Or did you mean Happy Year 2000 as being the last year of the current
> millennium, so that's why we should celebrate it?
> 
> --
> Lance.
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