Hoody wrote:
>BTW Its 00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09. 10 would be in the "ten's" or
>"teens".
But there wasn't any year 0 now was there?
>20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
>Are there 20 or 21? There are 21. Its like comparing an apple to a
>bag of apples. [quality vs quantity if you will]
Now I get it. But now my screen needs to be cleaned ;)
>But as said elsewhere it doesn't really matter a great deal. If the
>calendar really did start with Jesus's birth Christmas would be
>celebrated at the same time as new years (instead of a week apart)
>[I've heard his actual birth anywhere between 10BCE and 10CE so this
>year is therefore meaningless in that respect]
That's beside the point, the point is that someone at some time or the
other descieded how the system worked. We can of course change that - but
since we haven't done so yet it's just weird.
>I am going to try to organise a party on 9/9/2001 (at 1:46:40am GMT)
>when it will be 1,000,000,000 seconds since unix began counting.
>One billion is bigger than two thousand. <G>
And I thought I was a geek, guess I lost...
BTW: I returned my cellphone that I got for christmas, still haven't
descieded on waht to do with the money I was thinking that a portable MP3
player would be nice but the 96MB versions are way to expensive at this date.
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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