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Article #341Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century.
From: mcg... Darin McGrew
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 21:17
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 21:17
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In article <1989Dec19.0...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, mrch...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Richards ) writes: >If one wants 1000 years in each and every millenium, and >there was no year zero, and one wants last years of millenia >to have the same thousands digit as all of the other years >of the same millenium, then 1 BC should be defined as >year zero (milleniumwise :-). You still lose. You would have the first millenium BC run from 1001 BC to 2 BC. Unless you define 1 AD to be the year zero. Even if you add a year zero, you still have a problem. If you want the year n000 to be the first year of the nth millenium, then you either need a 0 AD and a 0 BC, or you need the year zero to be included in both the first millenium AD and the first millenium BC. Maybe the current calendar isn't as bad as it seems. Darin McGrew mcg...@Eng.Sun.COM Affiliation stated for identification purposes only.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!newstop!sun!ichthous!mcgrew From: mcg...@ichthous.Sun.COM (Darin McGrew) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century. Message-ID: <129439@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 19 Dec 89 21:17:57 GMT References: <1989Dec19.015638.14533@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: ne...@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: mcgrew@sun.UUCP (Darin McGrew) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 21 Posted: Tue Dec 19 22:17:57 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit