----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Whitmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 3:58 AM Subject: Re: A little bit of history...repeating
> > > >Easy - no year 0 - and 2000 + 1 = 2001 > > So the people said 'this is year 1', even though it didn't happen? I > mean, I wasn't 1 until I'd lived a year. It still doesn't explain why > everyone celebrated it last year. Maybe they're all cretins? > Register my vote for the cretin theory. Nobody actually said "this is year 1" - the system was introduced by the Venerable Bede about the seventh century. Think about it. "What's the date? 1BC, eh? Blimey, hope He turns up soon or we're really stuffed"...
