: Supposedly they only started counting the date 7 years
: after that Jesus guy died, So supposedly the
: "actual" millenium isn't gonna be around
: till 2007. A bunch of PeeCee's are still gonna blow up
: though !
The A.D. time period starts with year 1, which is the year Jesus was born. They may not have used that system until seven years after Jesus died, but they still used year 1 as the starting point. So the second millenium after his birth year starts at year 1 + 2000, or 2001.
However, there have been so many calender changes, and innacuracies in the early calenders, that the time two-thousand actual Earth-orbits from the start of Jesus' birth year is suspected to have occurred sometime in 1996 or 1998 by our modern calender.
Of course, computers and people are all gonna freak in 2000 (by our calender), and people are gonna party on New Years 2000 (by our calender) (hrm, would that by NY2K?), and then all the smart people are gonna party again on New Years 2001 - and then lets not forget the Chinese, who have a whole different date for New Years than we do. So, pick a millenium and do with it what you please.
