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Strategies & Market Trends : The Millennium Crash -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2495)	3/30/1998 10:42:00 AM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5676

Some of the same thoughts cross my mind. The coming of the last Millenium doesn't seem to have left much of a mark in the history books, though I believe there were people who expected the second coming of Christ then. Perhaps there was too much uncertainty about calendars then --or about the birth date of Jesus-- to be quite sure what year it was. I know that the Julian calendar was in effect, and had to be reset first by the Catholic Church and then elsewhere during the Renaissance and eighteenth century (though the Eastern Orthodox Easter never has been reset). But my impression is that in the year 1000, not many people had the leisure to worry much about what year it was. Now with 2,000 coming on, lots of people have spare time for worrying. The most serious and convincing Y2K discussion I have seen is in the current issue of The Economist. Perhaps I tend to be skeptical of imminent chronometric disaster because I still own and use a wind-up mantel clock made in 1873.