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From: robert@madnix.UUCP (Robert Moldenhauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Happy New (Year|Decade)!
Summary: Decades end in 9, Centuries in 0!
Message-ID: <1022@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 90 12:22:15 GMT
References: <9178@cbmvax.commodore.com> <B$gsry@cs.psu.edu> <14114@grebyn.com>
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In article <14114@grebyn.com>, ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
> In article <B$gsry@cs.psu.edu> bralick@cs.psu.edu (Will Bralick) writes:
> >In article <9178@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> >
> >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.


It's really very simple, the ninties will end on 31 Dec 1999 but the 
20th Century won't end until 31 Dec 2000.  Given the fact that people are
very nine oriented there will undoubtly be many parties welcoming in the
last year of the millenium (2000) but that doesn't make it the first year
of anything but the 0's decade.  
I personally would like to see the whole last year of the mellenium (2000)
declared a holiday.

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