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Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"

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From: Stan and Rae Lipkowski
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 00:00
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Daniel P. Ferner <dfe...@concentric.net> wrote in article
<01bc750e$7441ea00$5af62581@dferner>...
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel P. Ferner
> dfe...@concentric.net
> 
> Maurilio Avalos
> > >Since there was no year 0,
> > >the first day of the new millenium is on January 1st, 2001.
> >  
> > Why do you say that, come on everybody with some common sense knows
> > that the new millennium starts on January 1st, 2000

Just as the first century began with year 1, and ended with the year 100,
the second century began with the year 101 and ended with 200, etc. etc  
 So does the next millenium begin eith the year 2001!!!!  January 1,2001!!!
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From: "Stan and Rae Lipkowski" <c...@provide.net>
Subject: Re: "New MMX Comercial...WIERD OBSERVATION!!....WHY!!?"
Date: 1997/06/11
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