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| (...) For the anal-retentive amongst us, there is no year 0, therefore the last year of the 20th century (big clue: 20 x 100) is 2000, which means the start of the third millennium A.D. (it's an abitrary start date, never mind it isn't really the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | Re: Millenium Fool's Day!
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| (...) Or to say it another way, we count the year we're IN, not the year we've finished. It's different from the way we count people's birthdays, for example. I just turned 25, which means I'm in my 26th year. And the years just "turned" 1999, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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