Posted by Utahraptor on 03 January 19100 at 08:47:11:

The 2000 Is The New Millennium followers have some proof on their side now. You see, In 1740, French astronomer Jacques Cassini instituted the "astronomical
calendar" to do away with the awkwardness of time calculations using A.D. and B.C. from the Gregorian calendar (our common calendar today).
So:
1 A.D. = year 1 in the astronomical system,
1 B.C. = year 0 (yes, year ZERO),
2 B.C. = year -1, and so on.

Which makes this the new century, and the new millennium, based on the astronomical calander, which isn't widely used. Thus making me originally right when saying this was the enw century. Don't know where Wooden Head got the idea I said the millennium was in 2000, but his chart actually showed me how to add 100 to 1, not 2000. And thus wrong on 2001 being the new millennium, as I previously said. Course, since no one saying it's the new millennium is actually using that calander. And taking in the 4 year error anyway, we see that anybody using a calander in use today is wrong, and therefore we really need to learn the Earth's true age, and go from there. Which could throw off everything, since it might not be based on our 365.4### ways.

Follow Ups:

• You do? How nice... posted by Charon on 04 January 19100 at 11:13:00 (0)
• Ahem... Um, duh... posted by Swyndle on 03 January 19100 at 13:12:24 (0)