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- From: ssuhook@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk (Roger Neil Hook)
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- Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:27:39 GMT
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- cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) 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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- >2000 Anno Domini ought to mean that it's 2000 years since Jesus Christ was
- >born. When he was born, it was no *years* since he was born, therefore his
- >first year of life was spent in AD 0, surely? His second year of life was
- >therefore AD 1, and so on - so 2000 AD ought to be the start of the 21st century.
- >--
- > -- Chris. cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)
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- Wrong. The years went 1BC, 1AD, 2AD etc. There was never a year 0.
- So 2001 will be the first year of the 21st century.
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- Rog.
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