Miata Mailing List: January 2000, Message #248

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At 1/2/2000 03:38 PM , Ron Wyett wrote:

>millennium:  1 a: a PERIOD of 1000 years.  1 b:  a 1000th anniversary
>
>My dictionary considers both the PERIOD and the POINTS (1000th anniversary)
>as acceptable definitions of millennium.

And what is an anniversary?  It is the celebration of a past period of time 
denoted by a certain date. Therefore, a millennium can certainly celebrate 
the date of 1000 years passing.  And this date (for the second millennium) 
is 12/31/2000, meaning that 1/1/2001 is the first day of the third millennium.

So, by your own publishing, you have agreed that the new millennium (as in 
anniversary) will begin on 1/1/2001 since you also agreed that the time 
periods are based on the Gregorian calendar, which does not have a zero 
year, but, theoretically and theologically, begins with 1AD.


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