[NTLUG:Discuss] Millinneum rant

[al_h@technologist.com]

TJ Bell wrote:

> Shane Wickson wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > This is such a pet peeve of mine.
> >
> > The millennium is not over in a few weeks.  People started counting the years
> > from 1, so 2000 years don't officially pass until we hit 2001.  By that same
> > logic, its not the end of the century, or even the decade.  It's only the
> > end of 1999.
> >
> > Thus, unless all the NTLUG meetings of 2000 are cancelled, we have 12 more
> > before the end of the millinneum.
> >
> > </rant>
> >

Let's hope that no important systems anywhere decide to argue the point on
1-1-1900
;->