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Now let's all really confuse ourselves. Was 2000
the first year of the 21st century or the last year of
the 20th?
To go from the BC to the AD or ( BCE to CE ) note
that there is no year zero. So we go from 1BC to 1AD.
If you use negative numbers for BC, then with normal
( I hate that word normal, this word has, it seems a
thousand meanings in math) the arithmatic we will be
1 year off.
The first decade went from 1 AD to 10 AD and
the first century went from 1 AD to 100 AD, the
first year of the second century was 101 AD,
so it seems that 2001 was the first year of the
21st century.
BTW, on the time thing, I always thought that
23h 59m 59s was say Sunday, and 00h 00m 00s
was Monday.
-- Gordon Talge
