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Re: [NSW] CityRail's New Year's Eve (was, a long time ago, "Tangaras are crap"
- Subject: Re: [NSW] CityRail's New Year's Eve (was, a long time ago, "Tangaras are crap"
- From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 04:00:37 GMT
- Followup-To: aus.rail,misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
- Newsgroups: aus.rail,misc.transport.rail.australia-nz
- Organization: Another Optus Customer
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John Dennis (jdennis@acslink.net.au) wrote:
: >I don't care because we're all partying for the wrong year anyway. The new
: >century doesn't start until the end of y2k, and besides, there's a better
: >reason to delay until the end of next year because it'll also be the
: >centenary of Federation.
: Indeed, and I have been told that one reason federation occurred when
: it did was so it would coincide with the end of the century - Jan
: 1901.
More correctly, Federation was delayed a year so it would commence at the
START of the 20th Century. Queen Victoria signed the Act at 2pm GMT on
31/12/1900, exactly as the clock ticked over to the 20th Century in
eastern Australia.
Cheers
David