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In <5gmt4q$a40$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, buckland@unixg.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:
>In article <5gmrkk$d00$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,  <chapm19@ibm.net> wrote:
>>In <AF53F4E8966826FB9@brierley.demon.co.uk>, stephen@brierley.demon.co.uk (Stephen Brierley) writes:
>>Another idea for an imaginary date--
>>How about any date in the year 0 (zero)?
>
> If only there really had been a year zero.
> Then we wouldn't have to be concerned about whether the new
> century and millenium begin Jan 1 2000 or Jan 1 2001.
>

Personally, I am not losing much sleep over when the new millenium begins.


On the other hand, the people I contract with are real worried what will 
happen to their computers on 1 Jan 2000.  And we thought we only 
needed to worry about Michelangelo's birthday.

Robert R. Chapman, Jr.
chapm19@ibm.net
Lynnwood, WA 98036 USA
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It's interesting how superstition thrives in unsettled times, 
and how many are prepared to listen to it, at least with 
half an ear.
        --Dietrich Bonhoeffer
          Letters and Papers from Prison, The Enlarged Edition
          (New York:  Macmillan Paperbacks Edition 1972), page 153
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