🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <339c9260...@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
Maurilio Avalos <xANTISPAMxMaurilio_Avalos_MierxANTISPAMx@xANTISPAMxibm.netxANTISPAMx> wrote:
>
>You are wrong, wrong , wrong!! The new millennium starts ON January 1,
>2000
>

I'm afraid your "triple wrong"s must be applied to yourself.  Counting 
the millennium is just like counting numbers.  When you count, do you 
start at zero?  No, you start at 1.  So, the next decade occurs when you 
hit 11, not 10.  And equivalently, centuries and millennia do not have a 
"zero-year".  Hence, the year 2000 is the last year of this decade, the 
last year of the 20th century, and the last year of the millennium.

The year 2001 begins a new decade, century, and millennium. 

However, it is common *misconception* that years ending in "zero" are 
special.  This is just wrong.  The misconception of millions doesn't 
change the facts.  The world was round and wasn't the center of the 
universe in the 1400s regardless of how many believed it to be so.  
However, "popular culture" screams and yells about the "next millennium" 
and then there are things like the "millennium bug" but these are all 
misnomers.  Common knowledge is wrong.  Year increments occur just like a 
6-year-old child counts fingers.  Can you find a 6-year-old who starts 
counting at zero?
-- 
Jonathan Adam Dawson                          daw...@rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu
                   http://rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu/~dawson/
                       Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny           
        There is nothing that is unknowable; there is only the unknown.