From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e841d56fbd063dc1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous) Subject: Re: 5th USENIX Conf on Object-Oriented Tech & Sys (COOTS'99) - CFP Date: 1998/05/26 Message-ID: <199805262102.XAA03743@basement.replay.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 356750789 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-001: Replay may or may not approve of the content of this posting X-002: Report misuse of this automated service to X-URL: http://www.replay.com/remailer/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Replay Associates, L.L.P. Mail-To-News-Contact: postmaster@nym.alias.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: <199805181500.RAA19306@basement.replay.com> On 22 May 1998 13:20:02 -0400, Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov wrote: > ...> I've heard many people say this, but can you quote an actual > reference? Say the Oxford English Dictionary or some such (being a > true engineer, I have no such reference handy at work :). There must > be an ISO calendar? I'm looking for something that actually DEFINES > "millenium" and "century" the way you do. Until that happens, I'll > stick to the ones I like. > ... Like Stephen Leake, I too must be a true engineer, since I have no such reference handy at work. Now I've found a reference from an untrue engineer colleague: _The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1995_, Funk & Wagnalls, 1995 (with the motto, "The authority since 1868"), p 288: [Quote : begin] A century consists of 100 consecutive calendar years. The first century AD consisted of the years 1 through 100. The 20th century consists of the years 1901 through 2000 and will end Dec. 31, 2000. The 21st century will begin Jan. 1, 2001. [end Quote;] Sorry, nary a word about millenium. Does this qualify as "an actual reference"? I hope the calendar hasn't changed since 1995. -- Jeff Carter PGP:1024/440FBE21 My real e-mail address: ( carter @ innocon . com )"You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail