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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] Y'know, I think I'd rather be a pedantic who knows it starts in 2001 than a moron who thinks it starts in 2000... And the calender, if you want to base it on the birth of Jesus, could be off anywhere from four to six years (by my understanding), but it's the other way. If we shifted the calender, we'd already be three to five years into the third millennium. And, besides, if the calender were recalculated to Jesus' birth, we'd probably have to move New Year's to a completely different season. As it stands, the calender most of us use places the beginning of the CE/AD period one thousand, nine hundred, and ninety-eight years and eighty-nine days ago, on January 1, 1. Add two thousand years to January 1, 1, and you get January 1, 2001. That's the way the calender works. It's an indisputable fact. Saying that the third millennium starts in 2000 is like saying that this year started on a Tuesday, when it started on a Friday. You can't just assign arbitrary properties to the calender. If you do, why even bother having one? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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