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In article <14...@skye.ed.ac.uk> rbk@aiai.UUCP (Richard Kirby) writes:
>Since I last posted to alt.folklore.computers about the year 2000 being a leap
>year, but not 2100, I have received several messages along the lines of 2000 
>is the last year of this century, not the start of the next. Well this is 
>clearly WRONG. Consider:-
...
>Jesus, was born. 1 A.D was when he was 1 year old, and starting his 2nd year.
...

The birth of Jesus seems to have little to do with it.  From the
Abingdon Bible Commentary, page 1034, talking about chapter two
of Luke,

	Jesus cannot have been born at Christmas; Bethlehem is
	generally intensely cold at the end of December, and no
	shepherds could have been "watching over their flocks by
	night" then.  In the winter the flocks are taken into
	sheepfolds or caves at night, but in late summer sheep
	are too languid to feed in the daytime, so the shepherds
	take them out at night.  Everything points to the late
	summer or early autumn of 7 or 6 BC as the date of the birth.

Why not have a party on labor day, 1993?

Of course, this is hardly computer folklore.

Stephen Uitti
sui...@haddock.ima.isc.com
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