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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!netsys!ibmpcug!pipex!warwick!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!tbrann
  2. From: tbrann@black.ox.ac.uk (Tony Brannigan)
  3. Newsgroups: uk.misc
  4. Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.203943.13685@black.ox.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 18 Nov 92 20:39:43 GMT
  7. References: <BxtIyL.LG2@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk>
  8. Organization: Oxford University Engineering Dept.
  9. Lines: 13
  10. Originator: tbrann@black
  11.  
  12. malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk writes:
  13. >
  14. >Next argument - I say the first year of the 21st. century is 2001, not 2000
  15. >which is the last year of the 20th. century.
  16.  
  17. I think the year "0" was in the first century, so "100" was the start of
  18. the second ... "2000" is the start of the 21st.
  19.  
  20. Tony
  21. -- 
  22. "And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, | tbrann@oxford.ac.uk
  23.   we who never let each other sleep above it."  | u90afb@ecs.oxford.ac.uk
  24.    Marina Tsvetayeva 1915                       | tonyb@nyx.cs.du.edu
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