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In article <5974@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> acu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Floyd McWilliams) writes:

   In article <3959@convex.UUCP> dodson@convex.COM (Dave Dodson) writes:
   >this millenium ends at the end of December in the year 2000...

   >Hint: There was no year 0, so the first millenium was year 1 _through_ year
   >1000, the second from 1001 through 2000, and the third from 2001 through 3000.

           Nope.  The first millenium was year 1 through 999.  The second
   millenium is 1000 through 1999.  The trick is, the first millenium got
   shafted out of a year.
           It's not very fair, of course, and anybody who was around during
   the first millenium is invited to sue The Calendar People at the court
   of law most convenient for them.

Actually, since a millenium is a thousand years, one ended last night
at midnight, too.  How are you defining _this_ millenium?  I define
it as 1000 to 1999, personally.
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