roll on brother

Roll on the (not so) roaring 20's! (2020-2029)

well 9/1 Errrm Never mind

Sharissa Davision so you were born in 1989 or 90?

But then again a millennium is just an arbitrary period of 1000 years so I mean a new millennium could've started on any year and heck if you make 1 BC to 999 AD then yes in theory you could get a full thousand. But there's two problems with this. The first reason is that it's one year before the epoch started (and even If it was thought that Jesus was born on December 25th, 1 BC the epoch didn't start until more then a week later and again in this case of this year numbering system there's no year 0) so having one BC year and only having 999 AD years wouldn't make any sense (even when it was proved that Jesus was born years before the epoch). The second reason is that 1 BC is not a round number so that means so that would mean that the 2nd-last millennium would have years 1001 BC to 2 BC and they are not round numbers so it can't be calculated this way. HOWEVER there is a solution to this problem. But first it's important to mention that we can't convert AD 1 into year 0 because then we would have to convert every single AD year for the last 2000 years which wouldn't be a big problem for the first 500 years since they were retroactively added in. But for the next 1,500 years after that then all those years would have to be converted and subtracted by 1 meaning that not only 2020 will turn into 2019 but it would screw up leap years and would screw up world events dating for the last thousand years. So no we can't convert AD 1 into year 0 because of how many events happened in the last thousands of years so it's too late to do that. BUT what if instead of converting AD 1 for the year 0 we instead convert 1 BC to the year 0. That would mean the start of the epoch would be a year before AD 1 and would be on Jesus suppose birth year 753 AUC and not 754 AUC (AUC means "in the year of the founded city" which the founded city was rome). Even though that means that every BC year would have to be subtracted by 1 to compensate for the conversion of 1 BC to year 0 meaning that years like 2 BC would become 1 BC (even though it's called -1 in astronomical terms) the thing is that no one knew that they were living in the time before Jesus and all those BC years were retrofitted in AD 731 by Bede and because of this the current year and all AD years would stay the same. So because of this converting all BC years wouldn't matter because not only because nobody didn't know about Jesus (and that his birth date was wrong) but also that years would be in round numbers again meaning that the year -1000 (1001 BC in our calendar) and -1 (2 BC in our calendar) would not only be a full millennium but also it could would end in round numbers. So it would fix the problem of no year 0 and even then before we had exact recorded records events with less records was just estimated with round numbers so adding a year 0 wouldn't change that since we still don't know that much what was happening back then. And when we reach the time before recorded history the BC/AD annotation (or the exact years in general) is dropped completely because then we really don't know what happened back then so we use other epochs instead. So yeah that's the thing, a millennium is just an arbitrary period of 1000 years, using 1 BC as a starting point would mean that millennia would end in years dividable by three 9's, converting 1 BC to year 0 would means the BC millennia would all start and end on round numbers, and it wouldn't matter if we changed 1 BC to year 0. So this sounds like a better system to me and fun fact people like computer scientists and astronomers are already using this idea (in things like ISO 8601 and astronomical year numbering). So yeah it's possible to do this but because that means we would have to reform the Anno Domini system to accommodate for adding in the year 0, the nature of how the number zero is viewed, and that no one is calling for a reform of the calendar era, It's unlike that this would happen anytime soon. But this just shows that you can either count millennia from 0 (or 1 BC in this case unless if we use the astronomical system which it would be year 0) to three 9's, or from 1 to 1000 because of how arbitrary these terms actually are and that this is just a man made creation that has no effect on both nature and the universe whatsoever. So it's just a really arbitrary Idea and concept no matter if you're using either Anno Domini (or the common era) or astronomical year numbering (or ISO 8601).

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Ahh 3EB, Hootie and the Blowfish. Those were the days!

My dad worked for a bank and the bank had to up date every computer system for the whole bank. He said it was a pain in the butt to do. But on the other hand I remember at the time my dad told me that anyone who had brand new computers were ok. Its people and companies with old computer systems that have to up to date their computer systems. They scrambled to fix things before the new year turned to 2000. If you think about it all that preparation prevented power grid outages world wide.

sara the. New millennium did began when the 1000s ended and the 2000s began.

And if you count 1 BC and convert that to year 0 then yes people were celebrating in the right year only if the year numbering system was reformed.

But then again a millennium is just an arbitrary period of a thousand years and the 2000's (millennium) did start that year in 2000.

1999 was 11 yrs after iso8601 published so these are: 20th century, 2nd mill and 200th decs ended. Not dec 31 2000

What did you think of 2010-2020? Was it as or even more crapper then in 2000-2010?

The century and decade as well

YEAH I THINK THAT TERRORISM ACTS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES I CANT STAND IT AT ALL

Margui622 2000 was the start of the millennium of the 2000s 2000-2999 Actually.

But doomsday didn't happen though and no power was cut off that day.

You were too young to understand it.