Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 19:26:56 +0000 From: Richard Smith <rsmith@trltech.co.uk> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Millenium (was: So, what do we call the 00's?) Message-ID: <384C0E00.16CA9502@trltech.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912051414240.40078-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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jack wrote: > > Today Greg Lehey wrote: > > > OK. I've come to generally accept this opinion. Let's look at a few > > more: > > > > When is the turn of the century? By the same logic, that's also in > > 2001. > > Yes it is. > By definition a century is 100 years; any 100 years. > A person born in 1900, who lives to be 100, will celebrate their > first century (100 years) on their birthday in 2000. > > A person born in 1901, who lives to be 100, will celebrate their > first century (100 years) on their birthday in 2001. > > The "birth date" of the Gregorian calander was Jan 1 1, not > Jan 1 0, so its one hundredth "birthday" (the end of its first > century) was Jan 1 101. Its 2000th birthday (the end of its > twentieth century) will be Jan 1 2001. The Gregorian calendar was "born" in 1582. At that time Pope Gregory XIII introduced special significance to the centenary years (1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000). So I guess centuries are designed in. As for millennia, if we're not celebrating a three digit roll over, what are we celebrating? JC's 2000th birthday was back around 1995 :-) richard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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