>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.

No, it's this kind of thing that gets everyone confused.  There was no year
0, so the year 2000 must be completed before 2000 years would have passed.
So the new millennium doesn't start until 1 January 2001...

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Lance Birch 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.
>
> No, it's this kind of thing that gets everyone confused.  There was no year
> 0, so the year 2000 must be completed before 2000 years would have passed.
> So the new millennium doesn't start until 1 January 2001...
>
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I'm not confused sonny boy. I said 2000 years will have passed
regardless of the starting point. Got ya !

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Lance Birch wrote:
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> No, it's this kind of thing that gets everyone confused.  There was no year
> 0, so the year 2000 must be completed before 2000 years would have passed.
> So the new millennium doesn't start until 1 January 2001...


The Christian calendar is arbitrary -- so what?  The big digit is changing
from 1 to 2.  Meanwhile, our Gates-infested technology will grind to
a violent halt.... these are reasons enough to celebrate :).

2001 is just another LSD shift.

Dan

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Dan Connelly wrote:

> The Christian calendar is arbitrary -- so what?  The big digit is changing
> from 1 to 2.  Meanwhile, our Gates-infested technology will grind to
> a violent halt.... these are reasons enough to celebrate :).
>
> 2001 is just another LSD shift.
>
> Dan

 :)

Boy I hope Pov is Y2K compliant.

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Ok ok, but I'm sick of everyone else saying that the year 2000 is the
starting point for the second millennium AD.

(oh, and the century too)

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Not mine :-)  Besides, if that happened, I wouldn't be able to run MAX any
more and that would kill me :-)


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I'm sure it is.

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Dan Connelly wrote:
> 
> Lance Birch wrote:
> >
> > No, it's this kind of thing that gets everyone confused.  There was no year
> > 0, so the year 2000 must be completed before 2000 years would have passed.
> > So the new millennium doesn't start until 1 January 2001...
> 
> The Christian calendar is arbitrary -- so what?  The big digit is changing
> from 1 to 2.  Meanwhile, our Gates-infested technology will grind to
> a violent halt.... these are reasons enough to celebrate :).
> 
> 2001 is just another LSD shift.
> 
> Dan

I'm sure there will be quite a bit of LSD shifted around that time ;)

PoD.

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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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Yey!!!  Someone beleives me!!!

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