At 02:56 AM 1/5/99 -0500, Ward wrote: These conversations have made me think about time. The key word above, IMO, is the last one, _count_. Does one count or measure time? In an analog clock, a minute starts at 60 = 00 seconds, not one. It is measured. Once you get to hours, it is mixed. They are numbered 1 to 12, but the morning/evening starts at 12:00. I used to always be confused when, for example, 12:30 AM was. In early digital clocks, one had to somehow "adjust" the hours display as a mod 12 counter typically counts 0 ..11. Suppose an analog computer is made as a clock. Say using voltage ramps. If seconds were mV, the sawtooth would be reset at 60mV. Same for an index mark on revolving disks. This could also be for hours, months, years, etc. So for an counting computer it is 2001, but maybe for a measuring computer, it is 2000?? End of rambling. The issue I guess isn't the millenniun, but how computers handle the year 2000. Don't be surprised if next year my messages are dated 1980. -Dave