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From: Brian Gordon <briang@ubu.corp.sun.com>
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Subject: Re: The New Decade
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Date: 28 Dec 89 20:57:20 GMT
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In article <2437@accuvax.nwu.edu> you write:
>	[...]
>to change our calendar for several more years. So why don't we bite the
>bullet and admit that the early days of our present year numbering system
>were not without some flaws in the methodology, write off the missing
>zeroeth year and celebrate a new decade this weekend.   PT]

What happened to "if it ain't broke don't fix it"?  Just because the "man on
the street" is confused about end/start of decades, centuries, millenia, etc.,
there are still perfectly valid definitions in place.  Why change them just
to align with ignorance ;-} ?


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