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Re: When did the 3rd millennium start?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 2 Jan 2001 05:07:33 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.!spamless!org
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Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Well, my point would be that the 20th century most sensibly (to me) starts
> 1900/01/01 so the 9th decade would still start at 1980/01/01.
That's when the *1900s* start -- just as the 80s start at 1980.
> born). The only thing real is that the world generally accepts the Gregorian
> calendar. Any assignment of particular meaning to particular dates is purely
> based on the personal preferences of each individual. The only shortcut
Sure. But for whatever reason, we do say that we are currently in the year
2001. Note that it doesn't work like birthdays, which count the number of
years *completed*. That's why the 20th century wasn't done at Jan. 1st 2000:
we'd just *started* the hundredth year.
I just turned 26; I'm in my 27th year.
If you want to call last New Year's Day the start of the millennium, you've
got to call last year "2001", and re-cast all previous dates as well.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
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| (...) You're totally ignoring my point. My point is that the relevancy of how we call things is so little, that what makes the most sense to me is to say that decades start when the last digit of the year turns 0, centuries start when the last two (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: When did the 3rd millennium start?
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| (...) in (...) 1989/12/31 (...) Well, my point would be that the 20th century most sensibly (to me) starts 1900/01/01 so the 9th decade would still start at 1980/01/01. But really its all pretty irrelevant. The 20th century isn't the 20th century of (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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