25 Dec
1999
25 Dec
'99
7:24 a.m.
At 05:28 PM 12/25/1999 +0000, you wrote:
Indeed I do -- most of the time. Heck, I even once used '@' as a letter
zero (well, it comes immedidately before 'A' in the ASCII table) when
lettering the sections of a document.
Had _I_ been designing a calendar, there would have been a year 0. And a
century 0. And a millennium 0. And, for that matter, a zeroth of every
month. We'd currently be in the 19th century (and at the end of the 1st
millennium).
But that's not the calendar we all use. The 19th century ended on
31/12/1900, and the 20th centrury started on 01/01/1901. That's within
living memory (just). Now, if you can honestly justify a century of 99
years, I'd love to know how.
Celebrate the year 2000 if you want. But don't call it the start of the
next millennium.
-tony
I'm willing to argue either side of this, and I have. When a child is
born, or when you buy a new car the period starting from the birth or
purchase (as the case may be) is part of its first year, and 365 (more or
less) days later it is one year old. Its existence is not beginning at its
first birthday, but at the beginning of its first year.
Now what I would like some of you scientific types to explain to me is how
folks living in the years 'BC' designated them. They couldn't say "this
year is 45 BC'" because they didn't know when it was going to happen.
I'm
afraid I'm not quite old enough to remember.
Regards
Charlie Fox
Charles E. Fox
Chas E. Fox Video Productions
793 Argyle Rd. Windsor N8Y 3J8 Ont. Canada
email foxvideo(a)wincom.net Homepage http://www.wincom.net/foxvideo
century (and the 2nd millennium). The new millennium
starts on 01/01/2001.
-tony
Hey, Tony, I thought all computer types counted 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9!