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Re: The Millennium

Re: "I don't expect anyone to change any official system just to make sense to
me", yours IS the official system, Clarence. Only a few radicals who insist on
duplicating the mistake made by the great unwashed at the turn of the last century
are urging us to celebrate the turn of the millennium a year late.

poj

Clarence Bennett wrote:

At 4:24 PM -0600 11/19/98, Tim Folkerts wrote:
But! your month DOES start with Day 1, and your year DOES start with Month 1.
By that argument, your century should start with Year 1.

Certainly. But Hour 1 begins at zero and ends at one o'clock.
The first metre on my tape measure begins at zero and ends at 1.000.

The Twentieth Century consisted mostly of years numbered 19xx.
It seems inconsistent for the First year not to start at and advance from
Date Zero.

Of course I don't expect anyone to change any official system just to make
sense to me.

Clarence Bennett
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan
248 370 3418
http://www3.acs.oakland.edu/physics/staff_info/Bennett.htm