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- From: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir")
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- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:30:14 +0000
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- In article <CC.92Nov17175024@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk writes:
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- > In <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk> malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S.
- > Muir") writes:
- >
- > > Next argument - I say the first year of the 21st. century is
- > > 2001, not 2000 which is the last year of the 20th. century.
- >
- >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.
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- It depends on whether you feel the first year was year 0 or year 1
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- Define 'In the *first* year of our Lord ...'
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