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  From: David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 12:01:57 +1030 (CST)

Re: Daylight Savings Time

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Alex Garner wrote:
> Whether you opt for 2000 or 2001 depends on whether you start counting at
> the year '0' or the year '1'. (Both these years are fairly arbitrary,
> because the calender was devised after the event.) Purists would argue that
> the first year is defined as '1', but engineers may argue that the first
> year should be '0'.

Should, shmood.  The first year of the calendar is the first year of the
calendar.  It's not as we have a choice in the matter.  (The calendar was
designed to start at year 1.)

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