>Dragan,
>
>Happy New Year to you too. And happy new millenium, if you wish.
>Just would like to remind you that BC/AC approach started when they did not know 'zero' in math. So, they skipped one year.
>But we all count the ordinary way, from zero, where zero is not included.
>
>See www.5dspace-time.org/Calendar/2000or2001.html or www.shef.ac.uk/~phys/people/vdhillon/teaching/phy105/phy105_millenium.html
>for details.

The story at the first link is nice, but inconsistent. If we've adopted the VB-C++ way of counting from zero, why didn't we renumber the millenia as well? All of a sudden we're supposed to have one millenium which is one year shorter. Or, why didn't we celebrate the 2nd millenium a year ago - it begins with a two, right?

If you ask anyone to count to ten, hundred or thousand - they will start from one (unless they're doing it using VB/C arrays :). I'm still not convinced we'd have to start counting years starting with zero. Calendar is a traditional achievement, and, IMO, should not be messed with unless the rotation of our planet changes, or it turns out to be incorrect for any other reason.