POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Happy Newyear : Re: Happy Newyear Server Time
13 Aug 2024 05:43:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Happy Newyear  
From: Mike
Date: 4 Jan 1999 11:38:37
Message: <3690455E.959DAB2E@aol.com>
If only that stupid moon would rotate around the earth in sync with the
rotation of the earth around it's axis and the sun!  Who designed this
solar system anyway?

Maybe if we protest to God he'll go metric!

Heh heh,

Mike

Dan Connelly wrote:
> 
> Lance Birch wrote:
> >
> > I just don't want people to call 2000 the first year of the new millennium
> > when it isn't...
> >
> 
> But it is the new millenium -- the new millenium of "2's in the 4th digit".
> Who cares if the millenium of "0's in the 4th digit" got shortchanged?
> It wasn't my problem.  Non-leap-years get shortchanged, but nobody complains.
> Not even all centuries have the same number of days.
> 
> The Christian calendar has been adopted to secular purposes... it's
> the digit that is being celebrated, not some obscure, arbitrary anniversary.
> 
> Dan
> 
> --
> http://www.flash.net/~djconnel/


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.