Re: 4GT/Millenium Trains and the DKT's, DKM's

["Mathew Quaid" <quaidy@hotmail.com>]

If you ask me how old I am, I say 25. If my birthday was on 1/1/00, I am
really 25 years and nine months and 25 days. If you think of 2000 the same
way, maybe it is 2000 completed years and we are really 2000 and nine
months. Hence it is the new millenium. Just a thought.


"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Barry Campbell wrote:
>
> > David Johnson wrote in message <39CB5AEA.C59D3C1A@ozemail.com.au>...
> > >Barry Campbell wrote:
> > >
> > >> If the first century (and millenium) started in year zero, which it
> > >> logically must have, then the second millenium must have ended at the
end
> > of
> > >> the year 1999.
> > >
> > >There was no year zero.  1 BC = 1 year before Christ.  1 AD = 1st year
in
> > the
> > >presence of Our Lord. (Amini Domini  sp?)
> > >
> > Nor was there a 1BC or 1AD (Anno domini = in the year of our lord). The
> > whole scheme was worked out hundreds of years later by some monk. (See
post
> > from David Bromage). My point is that there *should* have been a year
zero
> > as it is absurd to go from minus 1 to plus 1 without zero between.
>
> You are taking it out of context.  1 BC was the year Before Christ was
born.  1
> AD was the first year During the life of Christ.
>
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> David Johnson
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