Remember Y2K and all the panic... As the ball was dropping (somewhere)..The USS TOPEKA, a 360 foot long nuclear submarine, positioned itself under the ocean straddling 00 degree latitude, 180 degrees longitude. These coordinates form the intersection of the equator and the international date line in the middle of the Pacific ocean somewhere between Hawaii and Australia. That meant that at the stroke of midnight different parts of the sub were in different hours, days, months, years, centuries, millennia, seasons, and hemispheres simultaneously. Is that cool or what ???
Remember Y2K and all the panic... As the ball was dropping (somewhere)..The USS TOPEKA, a 360 foot long nuclear submarine, positioned itself under the ocean straddling 00 degree latitude, 180 degrees longitude. These coordinates form the intersection of the equator and the international date line in the middle of the Pacific ocean somewhere between Hawaii and Australia. That meant that at the stroke of midnight different parts of the sub were in different hours, days, months, years, centuries, millennia, seasons, and hemispheres simultaneously. Is that cool or what ???
They could have been a year early.
The 21st Century is the current century. It started on Jan 1st, 2001 and will end December 31st, 2100.
The first century started at the first second of the first day in the year 0000. By the end of the first year it would be the last minute of the 365th day of the year 0000. Day 366 would fall in the second year of the first century, Jan 1st, 0001. That would make Jan 1st, 2000 the first day of the 21st century, not Jan 1st, 2001. N'est-ce pas'?
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The first century started at the first second of the first day in the year 0000. By the end of the first year it would be the last minute of the 365th day of the year 0000. Day 366 would fall in the second year of the first century, Jan 1st, 0001. That would make Jan 1st, 2000 the first day of the 21st century, not Jan 1st, 2001. N'est-ce pas'?
nope, the problem is there was no year 0. It goes from -1 to +1. the zero time was 'between' the two. At the time they weren't using our current system. It was year xx in the reign of whatever Caesar. When the current system started that's how they did it, no year Zero.
nope, the problem is there was no year 0. It goes from -1 to +1. the zero time was 'between' the two. At the time they weren't using our current system. It was year xx in the reign of whatever Caesar. When the current system started that's how they did it, no year Zero.
That's me all over. A day late and a year short(ain't got no dollars).
How did they know to use a -1?
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That's me all over. A day late and a year short(ain't got no dollars).
How did they know to use a -1?
Strike two!
They didn't know and at the time just called it year 27 of Augustus Caesar followed by year 28. We only hundreds of years later assigned -1 to their year 27 and +1 to their year 28 of Augustus, making the best guess to the year of the birth of Jesus. Later research says that may be off by a year or three.
Speaking of Spaghetti, My wife left me with instructions to cook my
dinner when I came home from work.
Fill pot with water then add Spaghetti....
I wondered how I ended up with a pot of glue !!
She said you boil the water first before adding the Spaghetti I###t.
Speaking of Spaghetti, My wife left me with instructions to cook my
dinner when I came home from work.
Fill pot with water then add Spaghetti....
I wondered how I ended up with a pot of glue !!
She said you boil the water first before adding the Spaghetti I###t.
I learned you have to put the raw eggs in the water BEFORE heating them up to make hard boiled eggs, NOT after the water starts to boil!
We had egg soup!
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Speaking of Spaghetti, My wife left me with instructions to cook my
dinner when I came home from work.
Fill pot with water then add Spaghetti....
I wondered how I ended up with a pot of glue !!
She said you boil the water first before adding the Spaghetti I###t.
Hijack! Hijack!
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If you run, you'll just die tired.
The first century started at the first second of the first day in the year 0000. By the end of the first year it would be the last minute of the 365th day of the year 0000. Day 366 would fall in the second year of the first century, Jan 1st, 0001. That would make Jan 1st, 2000 the first day of the 21st century, not Jan 1st, 2001. N'est-ce pas'?
THERE IS NO YEAR ZERO. In the Christian calendar, you go from 1 BC to 1 AD. 1 AD is the year Jesus was born in; 1 BC is the year before that.
The new millennium began on January 1, 2001. The bushwah with Y2K had more to do with how computers work than with how calendars work.
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