From helbig@man.ac.uk Mon Dec 20 14:32:36 1999 Received: from thales.astro.rug.nl (root@thales.astro.rug.nl [129.125.6.224]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA83617 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:32:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from helbig@man.ac.uk) Received: from gladia.astro.rug.nl (gladia.astro.rug.nl [129.125.6.17]) by thales.astro.rug.nl with SMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.1) id OAA13342 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:35:42 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:32:19 +0100 Message-Id: <99122014321906@man.ac.uk> From: helbig@man.ac.uk (Phillip Helbig) To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk, X3J3@ncsa.uiuc.edu, COMP-FORTRAN-90@mailbase.ac.uk Subject: Millennium (was: (SC22WG5.1678) J3 web page update) X-VMS-To: SC22WG5@DKUUG.DK,X3J3@NCSA.UIUC.EDU,F90 X-VMS-Cc: HELBIG From: Lawrie Schonfelder > On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:05:50 -0600 Jerry Wagener wrote: > > > Happy Holidays and Merry Millennium > > (with apologies to those who don't think it's the millennium). > > Of course its the millenium! The start of the last year of the second one! > This of course means we get to have a big celebration next year as well. Everyone knows that God programs in Fortran and we thus have the beginning of the new millennium a little over a year from now. A C programmer (I think he lives down below) would of course start numbering the years at 0 so that after the year 1999 one has had 2000 years and thus can celebrate. We all know, though, that after 1 B.C. came 1 A.D. Thus, there was no year 0. The first year was 1, the default lower bound in Fortran. Thus, we have to wait until next year.