OT: Happy Holidays - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Dec 1999

On Dec 25, 17:28, Tony Duell wrote:

...
  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. 
The "official" line here is shown in the banner on the Royal Observatory
Greenwich's page, amongst other places:

"2000 is the Millennium Year.  The New Millennium officially starts on 1
Jan 2001."

I guess that's official speak for "We have to go along with the
ignoramuses. However, we know they're wrong" :-)

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York