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

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