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- From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.121155.1432@dct.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:11:55 GMT
- References: <BxtIyL.LG2@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <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.
-
- Correct. There was no year 0AD or 0BC since only Computing types start couting
- from 0 under normal circumstances. Hence decades don't begin until the year
- ends in a one. (years ending in 0 being the 10th of the previous decade)
-
- Would someone please tell the Hogmanay/New Year's eve programme makers this, so
- we won't have a load of ill-informed drunks shouting happy new Millenium at
- Midnight on Dec. 31 1999.
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