keith helgesen wrote:
Then there was the one about when did the millennium start -00, or 01. Who
cares now?
Mostly computer engineers whose programs did NOT melt down as predicted!!
I got many chuckles out of that particular argument. Anyone who
knows anything about our calendar should know perfectly well that it
never was and never will be a mathematically exact construct. In
fact, it's a King List--which is how they kept track of years in
Egypt, Rome, and Palestine--but with only a single King on it!!
That's what Anno Domine MEANS!! And they even got the birthday
wrong! Nobody has ever agreed on when the New Year starts except
locally ("sometime between September and April!"), and there's the
little matter of the 10 days that disappeared in the 16th century
when the Pope tried to realign the calendar with the celestial signs
that had gotten all out of synch (the difference between the Julian
and Gregorian calendars).
So, this is the Year of the Wombat, isn't it??? And New Years is on
John Lennon's birthday??
John
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