1st January 2016, 11:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 2nd January 2016, 1:20 AM by A Black Falcon.)
I graduated high school in 2001, so at the time I liked to think of 2001 being the real first year of the millennium because it meant that we were the first graduating class that millennium. :) Yeah. And there is no year zero, so it IS technically true as well... kind of. I mean, thinking about it right now, we don't re-adjust when decades or centuries start, we just said 'the first one starts from 1', so it probably makes more sense to say that the first 'millennium' was 999 years long. But you could go either way on it.
Anyway, as for the link, that's an interesting argument in that link about 1 BC being the 'real year zero'... I don't know if I entirely buy it though, since they didn't have a 'zero' so I'd think that if he meant for what later was called 1 BC to be 1 AD he'd have called that year 1...
In other news, so far 2016 feels pretty similar to 2015. :p
Anyway, as for the link, that's an interesting argument in that link about 1 BC being the 'real year zero'... I don't know if I entirely buy it though, since they didn't have a 'zero' so I'd think that if he meant for what later was called 1 BC to be 1 AD he'd have called that year 1...
In other news, so far 2016 feels pretty similar to 2015. :p