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- From: jrg@doc.ic.ac.uk (James Grinter)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
- Date: 17 Nov 92 11:51:10 GMT
- Organization: Dept. Of Computing, Imperial College of STM, UoL, UK
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- In-reply-to: rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 17 Nov 92 09:52:50 GMT
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- In article <28248@castle.ed.ac.uk> rwb@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Bingham) writes:
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- In <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk> malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir") writes:
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- )> Next argument - I say the first year of the 21st. century is
- )> 2001, not 2000 which is the last year of the 20th. century.
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- I agree with you Malcolm, but you can bet the press & TV will have us
- all celebrating the end of the century on 31st December 1999...
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- And again on 31st December 2000 when they will then point out that the
- real end of the 20th Centrury wasn't the previous year.
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- James.
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