A Date With Tim Peters...

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Well, since this question seems about to come to fisticuffs, I suggest
everyone look at this little masterpiece:

	http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/pedants.html

<imaginary-zeroes-are-as-good-as-any-other-kind-of-nothingness>-ly y'rs,
Ivan


Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> In article <tYq14.171$E3.10941 at newsfeed.avtel.net>, Phil Mayes
> <nospam at bitbucket.com> writes
> >David N. Welton wrote in message <87puwpg7kp.fsf at freddy.page.street>...
> >>Guido van Rossum <guido at CNRI.Reston.VA.US> writes:
> >>
> >>> Come and join us at the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn (across the
> >>> bridge from Georgetown), January 24-27 in 2000.  Make the Python
> >>> conference the first conference you attend in the new millennium!
> >>
> >>Doesn't the new millenium actually start in 2001?
> >
> >
> >Only for FORTRAN programmers.  Python and C programmers, being zero-based,
> >get to celebrate a year earlier.
> >--
> >Phil Mayes    pmayes AT olivebr DOT com -- make that ZeroLiveBr.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Doesn't matter about the base; to celebrate 2000 years you have to have
> them. As there's no zero A.D. even C programmers will find it difficult
> to dig up the extra year.  Year 2000 bi-milleniallists should celebrate
> the start of the 2000'th year next January; then they can celebrate the
> beginning of the new millenium in 2001. Mere digit preferentialists can
> do as they please, personally I'm going to try and wait for 2222.
> 
> Presumably programmers will have another field day in the years running
> up to 9999. They can mumble on about all the flag dates and also the
> Y10k problem at the same time.
> --
> Robin Becker
> 
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