Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:49:41 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: hybrid@slip.net Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Correction Message-ID: <34E1F2C5.DF51320D@dal.net> References: <34DFDDA2.150A@slip.net>
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Bobby LaThanh wrote: > > The 2000 bug is NOT a Millenium bug. In addition to the numerous faulty assumptions you're making here, you're fighting a huge uphill battle against the common usage. However of the various arguments I've heard regarding this, yours are the weakest. > The 1st Millenium went from the year 1 to 1000 To start, there was no year 1. The best guess from those who've studied this is that the year of Jesus' birth was approximately what we would call 4 A.D. Even this date is up to dispute however. > The 2nd Millenium is from the year 1001 to 2000 Even assuming that 1001 is accurate, you're neglecting several important items, not the least of which is the change from julian to gregorian calendars. > The New Millenium wil not be until 2001... > > Same idea goes for the 21st century which will also not start until 2001 Finally, your conclusions are extremely Anglo-centric. There are lots of population groups in the world (in fact, a significant percentage if not the majority) who don't give a hoot about your "next millenium" because they don't measure time the same way we do. The most correct terminology is the one most commonly used, which is to refer to the "Year 2000 problem," or as it is often abbreviated, "Y2K." If you'd like to follow up on the socio-political aspects of the post, please do so on -chat. Hope this is of interest to someone, :) Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe chat" in the body of the message
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