Unless you place full faith in Dionysius! That is accepting a human creation of an event as being the only possibility, decades after his determination. I ain't buying it wholesale! Ask me this time next year and I probably will buy it retail.

...been watching both sides spin their wheels trying to convert the other side, and it's all unnecessary. This transition is the single transition that will occur within our lifetimes that is shared by all off us currently occupying this planet. Why not celebrate it now, when the accepted calender rolls over from 1999 to 2000?!? ...and every media outlet, vacation package, year long chip series (except for one) points to or acknowledges the new millennium as starting at midnight (now past here, happy 2000!)

Arbitrary was the best word I could find to describe differences involved in the conflicting ideas presented here, and it still is. It really doesn't matter. Kids will still be taught to count beginning with one. They also will be taught that measuring the passage of time starts at zero.

Happy Y2K!
Bob