Re: Railways and the Millennium Bug

David Johnson (trainman@ozemail.com.au)
Thu, 30 Apr 1998 02:18:26 +1000

Ashley Wright wrote:

> Unfortunately the sequence of years going from BC to AD does not
> include a Year 0. The sequence of years runs 3 BC, 2 BC, 1 BC, AD 1,
> AD 2, AD 3 etc. This means that the first year of the first
> millennium was 1 AD. The one thousandth year was AD 1000 and the
> first day of the second millennium was AD 1001.
>
> It is thus clear that the start of the new millennium will be 1 Jan
> 2001.

Theologians claim that our calendars are about 7 years out anyway, but who's
counting?

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David Johnson
CityRail Guard
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