[Darryl]

Hi Tobias,

Now I PROMISED myself I was NOT going to get involved in this.....but........

With all due respect, the backdating of the calender resulted in a starting point of "zero" but, just as you are born at "zero" and go through your *first year*, the first year of the 'Millennium' was year 1, not year 'zero'.

This is precisely the reason that we have lived thus far in the Twentieth Century even though we live in the '19' hundreds. To those who say we have reached the end of the decade and the century but not the Millennium, and there are plenty, I will just grin broadly and walk away.

It has been amazing here in the last few days to see the Media and the advertisers start refering only to the year 2000 and NOT to the "New Millennium". Now I am just cynical enough to believe that we are going to go through the whole Millennium hype again at the end of this year, promoting the wrong year gave them another bite at the cherry in 362 days time.

On the question of who 'invented' the modern calender, I must agree with Mike. The mad monk got it almost totally right (except that in the year 4019 we lose a day!! or is it gain a day, I'll post back when it happens**VBG**).

BTW Mike, sorry for not getting back to you on the other thread, it HAS been grand and now we get the chance to do it all again, at least until the Vogons arrive to blow us into hyper space....

regards

Darryl