On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
In a message dated 12/24/1999 2:39:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes:
The new millennium starts on 01/01/2001.
Right on!
I'm pleased to see I'm not the only one...
This whole millennium mistake is actually very worrying. It shows how
easily the genneral public will accept false information without
bothering to check it, even when it's easy to verify. One wonders how
many other lies are doing the rounds.
-tony
Then we should worry even more, Tony, as the book "The Century" by Peter
Jennings and Todd Brewster, reports that their was a similar debate in
1900. I think that I would not want to place any heavy bets on the rest
of the nn00/01 dates, either.
- don