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Re: new millenium bugs me
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Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:48:06 GMT
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> I just had this argument at work. There is no year zero! At midnight on
> dec31st is the year 1 BC it became 1 AD (though they didn't think of it as
> such at the time) so the first decade would look like:
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> 2bc\1bc\1ad\2ad\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\10\11
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> The slashes are midnights on new year's eves. In between the slashes are • years-
> counted as the first one, the second one, etc.- spans of time.
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> The first decade is the part that is contained by:
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> \1ad\2ad\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\10\ counting the spans of time (years) between the
> slashes shows that we have ten years, a decade. The FIRST year of the next
> decade is the year 11. Extrapolating this to milleniums means that at the end
> of 1000 years we were at dec31st 1000, which rolled into 1001- the first year
> of THIS millenium. So 2000 is the last year fo this millenium- on dec31st
> 2000, 2000 years will be complete and a new millenium will start.
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> If we counted eggs, and had ten of them, and started with zero, then we'd only
> count nine eggs.
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> Chris
Ok now I'm real lost here. I was always told that B.C. stood for Before
Christ, and A.D. stood for After the Death of Christ. If this is true, then
what happened to the 32 years that Christ lived. Are they ever counted.
Or were they just forgotten by the romans?
Jodi
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| (...) Years weren't counted in a Christian manner until well after the death of Christ, because early Christians fully expected him to return in their lifetimes. The best estimates say that he was probably born around 4 BC. AD doesn't mean "After (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) with (...) then (...) I just had this argument at work. There is no year zero! At midnight on dec31st is the year 1 BC it became 1 AD (though they didn't think of it as such at the time) so the first decade would look like: (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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