Randy Crawford Joe Sample Feeling Good Rar more. New Millennium from The People History Site what do you remember. Welcome to the New Millennium Being. The New Millennium Being, written and published by Guru Rattana, Ph.D, began in 1999 as a periodic (at least 12 times per year.

Calender System: Year Gregorian..2000 Byzantine..7508 Chinese..4636 Indian...1921 Islamic...1420 Jewish...5760 A 6th century scholar, Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Short), established the Gregorian calendar in A.D. 532 by fixing A.D. (Anno Domini)1 as the time of Jesus Christ's birth. In Dionysius' time, the notion of counting from 0 had not yet been introduced to Europe from the Middle East. Jesus Christ was more likely born in B.C.

6, but Dionysius' system has held firm throughout the years. There are, however, some 40 other calendar systems in use, all of which are in different years that change on different dates. Officially, the new millennium will begin at zero hour, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), also referred to as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), on January 1, 2001, according to rules adopted at an international conference held in October 1884. But that same conference also decided that this reckoning 'shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable.' In other words, everyone east of Greenwich will not postpone their parties past midnight local time, and everyone west won't celebrate early.

The year 2000 is special--even though it isn't the start of the 21st century--because it is a leap year. Julius Caesar devised the leap year to correct for the fact that the earth circles the sun in 352.24219 days. Because this is not a whole number, the months of the year would slowly fall out of sync with the seasons. Ww Grinder Owners Manual.

A fairly precise correction to the Gregorian calendar debuted in 1582, and stated that a century year will only be a leap year if it is evenly divisible by 400--which is true for Y2K. DAWN OF A NEW MILLENIUM on January 1, 2001 will shine first in Antarctica and resemble the breaking sunrise above. Frank Morgan, the Meenan Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, gives the following answer, adapted from his upcoming Math Chat Book, which is based on his Math Chat TV show and column, both available at the Mathematical Association of America's Web site: The inexorable mathematical logic is that the official calendar millennium does not start until the year 2001. The first 2000 years end with the year 2000, and the next thousand start with 2001, the first year of the third millennium. Imagine a vast army of soldiers, with 1,000 men in each row.