From eclrh@sun.leeds.ac.uk Mon Dec 20 15:14:47 1999 Received: from sun.leeds.ac.uk (sunserv7.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.16.37]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA83883 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:14:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from eclrh@sun.leeds.ac.uk) Received: from sun088.leeds.ac.uk (sun088.leeds.ac.uk [129.11.152.201]) by sun.leeds.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09680; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:15:47 GMT From: Robert Hill Received: (from eclrh@localhost) by sun088.leeds.ac.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA07431; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:15:40 GMT Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:15:40 GMT Message-Id: <199912201415.OAA07431@sun088.leeds.ac.uk> To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk, X3J3@ncsa.uiuc.edu, COMP-FORTRAN-90@mailbase.ac.uk Subject: Re: Millennium (was: (SC22WG5.1678) J3 web page update) X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII > 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. Shame on anyone who missed the opportunity to celebrate on the evening of Monday 29 November! The following day was 0/0/2000, which has at least as much right as 1/1/2000 to be regarded as the start of a new millennium. Robert Hill