Many of us find it difficult to understand how it was possible to manage without a zero - but it is interesting to note that we still use a "no zero" system when numbering the days of the month.
There is no December 0. We call the first day of the month :- "the first" - just like the ancients called the first year AD - "the first year" and the Romans time system referred to "the first hour" etc.. So, be careful to call today December 28th - "December the twenty eighth" and not December 28 - "December twenty eight" 28 days will not have elapsed until midnight tonight - at the end of the twenty eighth day of December. As indeed 2000 years will not have elapsed until midnight at the end of December 31st 2000. Working without a zero isn't all that hard, we do it all the time. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] 53.37N 3.02W Wirral, UK
