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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 21:06:15 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: (OT) Re: Happy New Year!!
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Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Todorovic wrote:
> 
> > > I just want to wish you all a happy new year and a Happy new Millenium!!!
> >
> > Thanks on wish for happy new year, but
> > YOU WISH US A HAPPY NEW MILLENIUM A YEAR BEFORE IT STARTS????!!!!
> 
> Why does everybody say the new millennium starts in 2001??? I don't believe
> it. Why do they start the counting of years with year #1?????? At the moment

Because they program in Pascal :-)

You can't much about it right now, you had to complain several hundred years
earlier... The reason is that after year 1 BC didn't come 'zero year', it was
1 AD... So the first (and all other ones) millenium could not finish at the 
year 1000, because it was only 999 years long.

> you were born, you were 0 years old, but in the first year of your live...

Absolutely correct. Right now our millenium is 1999 years old and in its
2000th year.

Laurynas Biveinis