POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Happy Newyear : Re: Happy Newyear Server Time
13 Aug 2024 03:14:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Happy Newyear  
From: Ronald L  Parker
Date: 3 Jan 1999 21:54:51
Message: <36932ce8.83253044@news.povray.org>
On Sun, 03 Jan 1999 05:42:59 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>I don't get it. When new years day rolls around won't 2000 years
>of human history have passed or not. Of course it will have.
>Give it a rest and party on dude.

Nope.  Even assuming human history began anywhere close to 2000 years
ago, which we're pretty sure it hasn't, one year from now we will be
just beginning the 2000th year AD.  1-1000 were the first thousand,
and 1001-2000 will be the second thousand.  The third thousand begins
on January 1, 2001 (disregarding a few calendar changes throughout the
preceding centuries, which the pedants among us will refuse to do...
hey, three parties!)


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