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To: Ken Robbins who wrote (57711)	1/1/2000 12:24:00 PM
From: Evolution	Respond to of 95453

OT ...there was no year zero... Well, this is debatable since our current reference calendar started to be used well after the fact (the instant ZERO). I am not sure of my source, but I think I have read that our calendar started to be used only a few centuries later, so I have serious doubts the calendar was accurately synchronized with the exact origin, the birth of Christ, which was not Dec-25 either by the way (shouldn't it be January the first?) All in all, whether the year zero existed cannot be positively assessed with historical accuracy. So I think it makes more sense to take a theoretical approach (mathematical) and assume the year virtually existed, hence we have effectively entered the 21 century today and not next year.