Would year 2000 not be the start of 3rd millennium?
According to the conventional concepts which I excerpt from Grolier Encyclopedia:
"In ancient calendars, years were generally numbered according to the year of a
ruler's reign. About AD 525, a monk named Dionysius Exiguus suggested that
years be counted from the birth of Christ, which was designated AD (anno Domini,
"the year of the Lord") 1. This proposal came to be adopted throughout
Christendom during the next 500 years. The year before AD 1 is designated 1 BC
(before Christ). Dionysius had referred the year of Christ's birth to other eras.
Modern chronology, however, places the event at about 4 BC. The 1st century of
the Christian Era began in AD 1, the 2d in AD 101; the 21st will begin in 2001."
Conventional idea blunder? yes, you can tell about the famous misconception about
the earth was flat, can't you?
Conventional misconception, how could it be?
Conventional ideas are mostly true unless they are proven otherwise, physically,
mathematically or logically. If the English language defines a chair a table and a
table a chair, we'll have to accept that unless it then state that you sit on a chair at
the diner table. That's logically inconsistency.
Back to the millennium bug: What century was 1900 in, 19th or
20th century? According to Dionysius Exiguus' adopted proposal, the year Christ
was born is designated AD 1, the start of the 1st century. It was perfectly true then
for the Roman numeral base system, so 1900 was still in good old 19th century.
We're now using the system of numeration, which include the concept of zero,
where the time line start with zero; that's where the confusion is; we use the
numeration system for calendar with the numeral counting start. With the
numeration convention, 1900 was the start of 20th century and 2000 will be the start
of the 3rd millennium. One can oppose to this argument by stating that counting from
the year Christ was born, it will have been only 1999 years at the stroke of mid night
tonight, Dec 31, 1999. If accuracy is to be considered, the actual year Christ was
born was 4 BC, the 3rd millennium would have been started at the beginning of 1997;
Then there's a logical problem: Christ was born 4 BC means Christ was born 4 years
before Christ?
Anyway, we are using the numeration system, so at the stroke of mid night tonight,
pop the Champagne to welcome the 3rd millennium.
HAPPY NEW MILLENNIUM EVERY BODY!
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