Thanks to all those who kindly supported me in this important debate.
To the others who offered various arguments against my suggestion please
allow me to react.
Someone said :
>Note that year-numbers are ordinals, not cardinals, and there was no
>year numbered zero.
>
Agreed but then neither was there a year 0 B.C. Also when Pope Gregory got
us to go gregorian from julian, there apparently was a drop of some two or
three years somewhere. So really all I am suggesting is let's take the
logical way out and let us define what we have control over. 0 AD or 0 BC
is out of our hands, but 2000 is a lot better then 2001 or 2003 or 2004.
Actually year zero was called 1 BC.
Someone else said :
>>thinking them capable of seeing the difference between past and future
>>
>
>So, what _is_ the difference?
>
How about : Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Another :
>The facts about when the millennium ends should be well known by now.
>
I'm sorry I missed millennium 101 - anyone else here missed it ?
Cheers
"The end of labor is to gain leisure." Aristotle.
-- ARG d'Ottawa ON Canada. Futuriste-au-loisir maintenant. --
