2 Jan
2011
2 Jan
'11
10:49 a.m.
It is a
histoirical fact that at least in the UK, the start of the 20th
centruy was celebrated at the start of 1901. If you want to have the
new
millennium starting in 2000 (and thus a new decade starting in 2010),
you
ahve to be able to justify having only 99 years in the 20th century.
...
Millenium (latin Mille Anus) : 1000 people making
a right arse of
themselves by celebrating a new millennium in the wrong year.
Well, it is now an 'historical fact' that hundreds of millions to
billions of people celebrated 1999->2000 as the millennial turnover, far more than 2000->2001. Those people make no more
an arse of
And every one of them was _wrong_.
Look, you can celebrate whenever you like (but I wish you'd do it in a
way that doesn't upsed me, and more importantly my cats), and you're
welcome to delebrate multiple carries in the year_increement if you like.
But don't call it a new millennium.
themselves than the people of 'historical
fact' who celebrated the
beginning of the 20th century at 1901.
As 'historical facts', neither proves the 'correctness' of where the
decade/century/millenial transition is deemed to occur, although if
quantity of people celebrating is the measure, I'm sure 1999->2000
wins.
I jhave never accepted, and will never accept a majority vote for
soemthing like this.
The 2000 celebrators don't have to justify anything, they just chose
Id fedepnds on wwhat they are celebrating. If they want to celebrate a
triple carry, that;s fine. If they claim to be celebratign a new
millenium (as it's normally defined) then they are plain wrong.
AFAIK ther ewas no 'new century' celebration at the start of 1900. Or
1800. The 19th centruy ran from 1801 to 1900 inclusing. If you want the
20th centruy to run from 1901 to 1999 incluse, you had better be able to
justivy how a century can contain 99 years.
The
calendar doesn't really denote an absolute time lapse, it just
provides labels to points in time. The epoch is arbitrary (who knows
what really happened in year 1).
OK, I might as well wish you a happy new year' on the 19th March at
15:23:10. A period of 365.25 days starts then after all :-)
As such, the absolute year or decade or century is meaningless. For
For that matter a new yrear is meaningless. AFAIK January 1st doesn't
correspond exactly to any special point in the earth's orbit.