Re: Feb. 29, 2000

[Peter Davis <pdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Lastly (a bit of trivia)  - the new millenia doesn't start on 2000, it
> starts on Jan 1st, 2001 (since most calendars used in the West don't
> recognize a year zero). It's said that's why Arthur Clarke named his
> novel that, instead of "2000" :-)

This is hardly trivial!  There are already hotels booking for December
31, 1999, and selling the "turn of the millenium" package.  I think
most of the population is more interested in the "odometer phenomenon"
(i.e., watching all the 0's turn over) than in the real significance
of the dates.

-pd

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