Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century.

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2 total messages Started by mrch... Matt Richards Tue, 19 Dec 1989 01:56

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Author: mrch... Matt Richards
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 01:56

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dodson@mozart.uucp (Dave Dodson) writes:

> mrch...@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Richards ) writes:
>>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 :-).

>Why do you think having 2000 as the last year of
>the second second millennium AD is out of sync?
>It seems perfectly reasonable to me.
>And why mess things for BC up when there is no need?


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 :-).


-- 
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!"

Re: An answer to what is the first year of the next century.

#341

Author: mcg... Darin McGrew
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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