🚀 go-pugleaf

: On 12 Jun 1997, Neil Harrington wrote:
: > Bill Newton <Bi...@notwen.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
: > <daS67JAr...@notwen.demon.co.uk>...
: > > In article <01bc750e$7441ea00$5af62581@dferner>, "Daniel P.
: > > Ferner" <dfe...@concentric.net> writes
: > > >That's not true, just because the numbers (2000) change, that doesn't
: > mean
: > > >100 (or 1000) years have gone by.  We don't hit that mark until Midnight
: > > >Dec 31 2000.  The start of the new century and millenium.
: > > 
: > > As I understand things a 'Millenium' is a span of a thousand years.
: > > Does it not follow therefore that we shall  be celebrating our ENTRY
: > > into the second Millenium immediately after midnight on 31st
: > > December 1999?
: > Nope.
: > In the first place, we are already in the second millennium. We have been
: > for nearly a thousand years.
: > There was no year zero, so the first millennium ran from the year 1 to the
: > year 1000 *inclusive*. That is, the first millennium wasn't finished until
: > the year 1000 was finished. The second millennium then started, on the
: > first day of 1001. 
: > The next millennium will be the third, and it will begin on Jan. 1, 2001. 
: > I'm sure millions of people will be enthusiastically ringing in the "new
: > millennium" at midnight, Dec. 31, 1999. They'll all be a year early, and
: > probably half of them still won't understand this even when it's explained
: > to them.
: > 
: > Neil

And then they get to do it all again the next year - sounds like a good plan
to me.

cheers