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- From: bob@black.ox.ac.uk (Bob Douglas)
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- Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.103830.24680@black.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:38:30 GMT
- References: <JRG.92Nov17115110@oak22.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.145205.18974@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <CC.92Nov17175024@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <CC.92Nov17175024@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:
- >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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- But there was no year AD 0. The year following 1 BC was AD 1.
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