The guy who did it, didn't understand year numbering. There is no year zero, so we have this:
Year 1 ... year 1000 <== first millennium
year 1001 ... year 2000 <== second millennium
year 2001 ... year 3000 <== third millennium
etc.
2007-09-26 09:56:11
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answered by morningfoxnorth 6
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No one determined it. People just assumed, without thinking, that 1-1-2000 would be the first day of the new millennium because it was the first date when the year began with a 2 instead of a 1. Of course you're right in implying that the new millennium began on 1-1-2001.
2007-09-26 09:57:23
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answered by yprifathro 3
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Actually, all of the above advocates for 2001 being the start of the new millennium are wrong. January 2000 is the correct date. Let me explain:
Let's make this personal. We are born on January 1.
When we are born, our age starts at 0 years. As we progress through life, we accumulate age. So after 365 days or 1 year, we are awarded the designation of being 1 year old. Our lives don't begin at year 1, we only get that title after having lived for 1 year.
Fast forward to year 10. After December 31 of our ninth year, we are given the title of being 10 years old. 9 years have gone by plus another 365 days to equal the tenth year. On January 1, the 11th. year starts to accumulate days. And so on, and so on...
Dec. 31, 1999 was actually the completion of 2000 years of time. So Jan. 1, 2000 is the start of another 1000 years of time. By Jan. 1, 2001, one year of the new millennium will already have been in the books, as they say.
2007-09-27 00:16:22
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answered by The Professor 4
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It was not "determined." It was an example of how the mass media, especially when they smell a sales opportunity, are capable of misleading the entire world. It was commercial greed and proud ignorance which caused almost everyone to celebrate the new millennium and the new century at the beginning of the year 2000. There is something about that odometric rollover that makes it *seem* like that's the beginning of a new century. But no. The first year of the calendar, actually or theoretically, is 1. So every century thereafter, begins with 01. The year 2000 was entirely in the 20th century.
All arguments about errors over history, missing days, etc., are irrelevant. We proceed on the common agreement that we are in xxxx year. If we had completely revamped the calendar in [the old] 1907, calling it New Age 1, then we would be looking at the end of the New Age first century this year. Past errors or changes are meaningless.
2007-09-26 10:19:21
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answered by Brant 7
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Neither, or the two. in the 1500's, the Gregorian calendar grow to be presented to change the Julian calendar. It wasn't observed in the united kingdom and united states of america, even though, till 1752, and at that factor we've been compelled to bypass 11 days (2 September grow to be observed with the aid of 14 September). the factor, nevertheless, is that whichever calendar you desire to think of in terms of -- Julian or Gregorian -- neither a million/a million/00 or a million/a million/01 lands on the tip of a appropriate 1000-12 months era. Which basically capacity that, incredibly, our calendar equipment is fullyyt arbitrary and arguments approximately while "the" new millennium starts are pointless because of the fact a sparkling millennium is commencing at present. And oh, seem, here is going yet another new millennium... and yet another... :)
2016-10-20 01:51:27
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answered by ? 4
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January 2000, we celebrated the fact that the thousands dial had clicked over. We didn't start counting until someone decided it was 322 and if we're going by the birth of Jesus, that was about 4 years out. Since then we've changed the calendar again which is why the Ethiopians are about 7 years behind.
So new millennium of what?
2007-09-26 09:58:01
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answered by Anonymous
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The real millenium was 2001 not 2000 as most people thought.
2007-09-26 12:32:46
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answered by Mr. Smith 5
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people are still debating over this matter
yes, a full fledged DEBATE
whether years ending with two zeroes - 00 - or years ending
with - 01 - should be called the new millenia
the media and authors usually say what they believe
should be the right answer, but as for now
know official answer could be made.
2007-09-26 14:48:02
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answered by filldwth? 3
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If enough people want to believe in something then 'it becomes true' even if its not.
You sometimes just got to go with the flow
2007-09-26 10:38:15
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answered by number one fighting chicken 3
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I did. Sorry about that, I guess I kinda messed up.
2007-09-26 12:32:14
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answered by Anonymous
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