International date line

Peter Hullah Peter.Hullah at eurocontrol.fr
Mon Jan 3 08:26:55 UTC 2000


Oscar van Vlijmen wrote:

> Wishing every reader the very best for this millennium, I would like to ask:
>
> [snip]

>
> Oscar van Vlijmen
> 2000-01-01

Are you sure the millenium didn't begin on 2000-00-00?

Or to put it another way: if your months begin with day 1 and your years with month 1,
how come your milleniums begin with year 0?

Pete

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