Sir, - Can you please do something to stop as making fools of ourselves, talking about celebrating the end of the millennium on December 31st 1999? It cannot possibly come until the end of the year 2000.
The position is quite simple. The first year of the Christian era was not the Year 0, it was the Year 1 and was completed on December 31st of that year. Therefore the first century ended on December 31st, AD 100, and the first millennium on December 31st, AD 1000.
am not suggesting that such dates were used early in the Christian era, but that is how the matter stands by our present day calculations. Please tell the people so. Yours, etc.
Slane,
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Co Meath.