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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 05:45:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Frank Filz writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> > 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.
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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
You act as if what people did for all the centuries when our system WAS in use
do not matter.
In 1901 this was not an issue; they treated just as people did in 1801, and
1701.
It is only our century that decided not to.
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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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