Pippi wrote:
>Oh, do shut up with that. did they have to put up with this nonsense in
>1900 when they celebrated the start of the 20th century too?
Actually they did it right (atleast here) back then. So they waited to 1901
before they celebrated. Do you only assume that what you know is the truth
or is there any fact behind (except what some people think now)?
>Deal with it, people are not logical
"that does not compute" - battle droid in SW : TPM ;)
Actually I think we all know that people are extremly ilogical, but that
doesn't change any facts now does it?
>and the fact that the 19 switched to a 20 is all
>that matters.
Sure we can celebrate that as well (and so many of us did, me included).
>Since the dating system is not based on some physics law,
>but on arbitrary assignment, the majority opinion that we've entered the
>21st century applies, and you guys can just go back to your calculators and
>quit pestering us about it!!
Actually I only use my calculator when I want to calculate something... For
instance it's very good when I want to convert between binary, hexadecimal
and decimal.
>It's not as if the dating system was begun at year 0 or anything.
Sorry, I have no idea when people started dating each other ;)
>I hope this doesn't go on all year!
When we have January the 1st again we can discuss who is correct again, so
it might even take that year as well :/
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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