1st January 2016, 11:31 PM
You don't need to think of it as a 999 year long millennium. You can still think of it as 1000 years long. Just adjust accordingly, or not at all really. It's always been rather petty semantics anyway.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)