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Article #338Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century.
From: mrch... Matt Richards
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 21:42
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1989 21:42
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le...@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) writes: >Let's not get complicated, this is really pretty simple. Because no >one with any sense was around to design a proper numbering system for >years, we got a system without a year 0. (I suppose this is worse >than a ones-complement equivalent system, which might have had two >year 0's!) So; 1 was the first year, and 10 was the tenth year. Why is everyone tinkering with the end years? Can't we just define 1 _BC_ to be the first year, since there was no 0? That would put everything in sync (for AD at least :-). -- Matt Richards WILL-AM/FM/TV Urbana, IL Center for Trivial Systems Research, University of Illinois mrch...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu "That's not a mistake, that's our system!"
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!mailrus!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mrchards From: mrch...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Richards ) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century. Message-ID: <1989Dec18.214254.9231@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 18 Dec 89 21:42:54 GMT References: <18494@bellcore.bellcore.com> <552@enea.se> <8483@ttidca.TTI.COM> <1468@skye.ed.ac.uk> <49878@bbn.COM> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 19 Posted: Mon Dec 18 22:42:54 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit