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A mistaken observation is that our calendar started with year 1, so the new
century and millenium will actually start on Jan 1, 2001. While it is
correct that there was no year zero, there was also no year 1 or year 100
or even 300. The gregorian calendar as we know it is just an arbitrary set
of years, so the new millenium can start whenever we want it to, whether
it's the first day of 2000, or 2001, or 1998 for that matter. General
consensus is that the new centuries always start in the zero year, i.e.
600, 1200, 1900, 2000, etc. There is no correct or incorrect start to the
new century and millenium. I choose 2000 to begin my next century. Not
literally; I'll only be 35.

Neil Harrington <nharr...@earthlink.net> wrote 

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> > >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.
 
This is correct.

> 
> 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. 

WRONG! (Sorry for shouting, it's not personal, just emphasis) The first
millenium did not start until someone decided to create the present western
calendar. I wish I knew the exact date they decided this. They just
backdated it to the previously nonexistent (and arbitrary) year 1.
> 
> The next millennium will be the third, and it will begin on Jan. 1, 2001.


WRONG! It starts whenever one wants it to.

> 
> 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
> 
> 
Dave