Last month of 1999

[Matthew Todd]

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There is no Y2000 K bug either.

Frank Weston wrote:

> >Histeria and advertising have no logic, however.  That is why many people
> >think the millenium is in a month.  I have over a year to plan MY welcome
> >to the third millenium.
>
> It all depends on what calendar you use.  If we stick with the original
> Roman calendar, the third millenium would have begun on about 14 Jan 1247,
> which would have saved us all a lot of argument now.  Unfortunately Julius
> Caesar and Pope Gregory got into the act and screwed everthing up and that's
> not the end of it.  Modern astronomers use the so called Common Era
> Calendar.  I quote from my research:
>
> "If you use the Gregorian Calendar and start the first millennium with the
> year 1 AD then the third millennium begins with the year 2001 AD. But if you
> use the Common Era Calendar, in which years are numbered -2, -1, 0, 1, 2,
> ..., and you begin the first millennium with the year 0 CE then the third
> millennium begins with the year 2000 CE. You have a choice. And if you opt
> for the Common Era Calendar you no longer have to put up with the smug
> assertion that "there was no year zero (so the new millennium begins in
> 2001)". There was no year zero when Pope Gregory XIII introduced the
> Gregorian Calendar in the 16th Century but there certainly is one now, and
> the new millennium in the Common Era Calendar begins in 2000 CE."
>
> Further, there is no Y2.001K bug.
>
> Frank Weston

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