On Dec 20, 1999 at 17:29, Pablo Ares Gastesi wrote:
> Here there is an interesting message of Linus in the linux-kernel list.
Linus Torvalds wrote: (it's great to quote Linus! Even second-handedly!)
> The reference point of our timekeeping is based on an event where the
> uncertainty about the timing is much more than a year, and was made up
> several hundred years AFTER the fact. As such, if you want to be a
> stickler, you might as well say that the next millenium may have started
> several years ago.
And I totally agree! That's why I don't particularly care, but when one
has a standard (however bad), one must adhere to it until it is changed.
Hence (sorry, I just had an exam) I will be one of those "...people with
no life but the ability to count..."
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