Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!stew.ssl.berkeley.edu!johnf From: johnf@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Flanagan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Happy New (Year|Decade)! Message-ID: <1990Jan1.225809.13097@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 1 Jan 90 22:58:09 GMT References: <9178@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 In article bralick@cs.psu.edu (Will Bralick) writes: >In article <9178@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >>Wow! I just noticed that it's the last day of both the year and the >>decade. > >I hate to contradict anyone :-), especially Dave, but ... >Much to the chagrin of C programmers everywhere, there was no >year 0 A.D., so we will have to wait 366 days to reread this >message. > As William Safire points out, this kind of argument may be technically correct, but it goes against such strong common usage that those who insist that the next Millenium does not begin until 1 January 2001 are going to miss all the good parties. Happy Nineties! John Flanagan Space Sciences Laboratory johnf@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu University of California (...!ucbvax!sag4.ssl!johnf) Berkeley, CA 94720 Manners Maketh Man. (415) 643-6308