At 19:03 07-01-2000 -0600, Sean Connor wrote:

Well, the holidays are over, and it's time to get back to work, submitting your
synopses for this, the first synopses list of the new millenium!

Unless, of course, you're one of those pedants who believes that the new millenium
doesn't start until next year, but personally, about the only use I've found for
such people is that we now have an excuse to hold millenial parties for two years
in a row!  :P

Maybe. I happen to know it starts next year, and I have an explanation as to why. So, FYI...

Around the year 500, if I recall correctly, a Roman catholic (the Roman empire's official
religion by that time was Catholic), high in the church hierarchy I believe, was given the
task of making a new calendar to replace the old one. So he made one. Which
happened to IGNORE the existence of year 0. So, in reality, we jumped from 1BC to
1AC. Thus the convention of century change in X01. So, if we were to include the
year 0 in our calendar we would have to subtract 1 year to our current date. So we
would in fact be in 1999 right now. Have I made myself clear or do I have to dig up
something from a scientific book or site that explains this?

Without intention of offending anyone and hoping that any replies are made private
unless there is anything of value to the list as a whole and also hoping the Admins
see this message as of value,
               Rui Costa

PS: The commercial companies chose to 'ignore' this due to convenience. This way
they can 'find out' that the Millenium didn't come yet and celebrate again. Thus
having another big profit. Especially the Champagne companies...