🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <14...@skye.ed.ac.uk>, r...@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Kirby) writes:
> 2000 is the last year of this century, not the start of the next.
> Well this is clearly WRONG.

  There are two ways to argue.

1) 2000 AD is the last year of the current century.

   This argument stems from the fact that the calendar started
   numbering with the year 1 AD.  Therefore the last year in a
   century is year 100 not the year 99.

2) 2000 AD is the start of the next century

   This argument says: who gives a damn about what happened
   2000 years ago?  It now makes sense to treat all years that
   begin with the same prefix as belonging to the same group.
   For example, all years of the form 19xx for the same century.

The method used most commonly stems from argument 2.  But, hey,
have fun -- go to *2* end-of-the-century parties, 1 in 1999, 1 in 2000.