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- From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
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- Subject: Re: Was: Re: 29 Feb 2000?, Now: 2000/2001
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 11:59:39 GMT
- References: <BxtIyL.LG2@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk> <28248@castle.ed.ac.uk> <JRG.92Nov17115110@oak22.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.145205.18974@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <CC.92Nov17175024@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.193646.27817@infodev.camOrganization
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- In article <1992Nov17.193646.27817@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
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- >In article <CC.92Nov17175024@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:
- >>
- >> In <721949208snz@muir.demon.co.uk> malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir") writes:
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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.
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- >No, Anno Domini 2000 means "in the year of our Lord 2000". Thus AD 1 was
- >the first year of our Lord, AD 2 was the second and so on -- except of
- >course that Christ was actually born around 5 BC, making the whole thing
- >meaningless...
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- And we are indebted to M Palin for revealing that Ethiopia is 7 years and 8
- months out from the rest of us.....the 486 processor hasn't been invented
- yet, there.
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- From the UK phone book Yellow Pages: BORING - see Civil Engineers
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- Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England (44|0)61-275-6033
- D.Budd@mcc.ac.uk fax 6040
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