Re: [NSW] CityRail's New Year's Eve (was, a long time ago, "Tangaras are crap"

["nobody" <dweebken@NOSPAM.yahoo.com>]

Who cares?
Any excuse to party is fine by me

Brendan

"David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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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