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Here's how calendar really works

By JANE C. ELLIS

Sunday, December 31, 2000

The 21st century and third millennium will begin on Jan. 1, 2001. Celebrations to welcome them in 24 time zones around the world on New Year's Eve, Dec. 31, 1999, did not alter that fact.

At the beginning of 1997, the misconception that the next century and once-in-our-lifetime new millennium would begin with 2000 started to spread around the world.

Those who understood how and why the Gregorian calendar measures and records the passage of time universally cautioned that was wrong.

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