From: m (mt_2@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Dec 12 1999 - 23:20:25 MST
--- 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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