> >Sorry, Karima, but the new (third) millennium won't begin until a year > >from today. A millennium is defined as 1,000 years; the second thousand > >years will not end until midnight December 31, 2000. I'm still lost on how they figure this. Are they counting from 1000 AD or from 1001 AD? Which year did they celebrate then? or from 01 AD? Who was around to be sure the transition went smoothly from 01 BC to 00 to 01 AD? When and who decided on when to start the first 1000 years? Makes no sense.... I'm still confused!! (Elizabeth Raynor m Thomas Southworth) Shirley