Re:millenium madness

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• Zeb Haradon <zharadon@inconnect.com> wrote:________
  > So there is no year
  0?_______________________________
  > I know the first year was 1AD - but what was it
  the__
  > night before Jan
  1,__________________________________
  > 0001, was it Dec 31, 0000, or Dec 31,
  0001BC?________
  > I'm asking how we look at it now, not how we
  looked__
  > at it then. When we
  (I_______________________________
  > mean, historians who know this stuff) refer to
  an____
  > event happening on
  new_______________________________
  > years eve before the first year, what would
  they_____
  > call
  it?_____________________________________________

Nope, no year "0". (That's a pretty nice set of zilches isn't it?)
The previous night would have been Dec 31, 1 BC. Anyway, let's celebrate 2000 AD millenium or whichever :) Mike

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