The list is much longer than that, Gene. Even if you can't tell who agrees and who doesn't. Which is why it's an important subject. So many people are claiming next year is the first year of the new millennium, children will believe it. The caliber of our educational system is no better than the caliber of our educators. But most people have no theories of year zero. They just think when the leading digit rolls you are counting the next thousand. It seems mathematically logical to them. At the same time we have fewer children able to comprehend basic math, we have more children packing guns to school and killing their classmates. I think there's a connection.

"We have uniformly rejected all letters and declined all discussion upon the question of when the present century ends, as it is one of the most absurd that can engage the public attention, and we are astonished to find it has been the subject of so much dispute, since it appears plain. The present century will not terminate till January 1, 1801, unless it can be made out that 99 are 100... It is a silly, childish discussion, and only exposes the want of brains of those who maintain a contrary opinion to that we have stated"

The Times, 26 December 1799