Re: Date 2000 a problem for Apple II?

[Charles Hall <hall@thorin.brooks.af.mil>]

There is no year 0 in our calendar system. 1 AD is preceded by 1 BC not
zero.  The century years mark the end of a century, not the beginning. 
Also note that 2000 is the end of a 400 year cycle, so it will be a leap
year, while 1700, 1800, 1900, and 2100 are not leap years (they are the
end of only a 100 year cycle in the Gregorian calendar).  February 29,
2000 is the other shoe waiting to drop after people get their databases
fixed to used more than just 2 digits for the year.

Charles Hall
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Epidemiology Laboratory
Brooks AFB, Texas

Rick Hatton wrote:
> 
> Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
> 
> >    Less of a problem than getting a few nutballs here to accept that the
> > millenia doesn't start until 2001.[1]
> 
> But, doest it? The year 2000 indicates 2000 full years have passed.
> January 15, 2000 would mean that 2000 years and 15 days have passed. In
> the Year 2000, you will be in the first year of the new millenium. In
> 2001, we will have completed the first year, and be in the second year.
> 
> Rick