Re: *USA Time

[Albert York <alfromme@xxxxxxxxx>]

That was my point. Just because we celebrated it at that time, it
doesn't mean it was right.

Albert

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sounds like you were a year early.  According to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century the 19th Century ended 12/31/1900.  It
> follows then that 20th Century ended 12/31/2000, making 1/1/2001 the first
> day of the current century.  Of course, by definition, a century may be any
> 100-year time period.  One of those will be ending in a few minutes, Eastern
> US time.  But if you live by the Gregorian calendar (and most of us do) then
> our century is in its 11th year, not its 12th.
>
> Dennis Lovelady
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>
>
> > And we celebrated the start of the century on 1/1/2000
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Neill Harper <neill.harper@xxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Midnight is 00:00:00, on the 3rd there is only one midnight and it is
> > the
> > > first instance of time on that day.
> > >
> > > To prove this we celebrate new years day at 00:00:00 (the countdown
> > to
> > > midnight) and not 00:00:01
> > >
> > > Neill
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > > I have never understood if "midnight on the 3rd" means the beginning
> > of
> > > > the 3rd or the end of the 3rd, or both, depending on context.
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