Chronology

1 Jan 2000

It was the most monitored midnight in history. People around the globe passed over the threshold into a new age - from those on tiny Millennium Island in the Pacific, who were the first to see the...

Not enough time? Actually, there's too much!

18 Sep 1999

Most of us will have better things to do than debate when the new millennium really starts.

New millennium seen in a different light

24 Aug 1999

The whole world will be celebrating the beginning of the third millennium on January 1, 2000, but if you had done a little mathematics, you may see things differently. Then you would realise that...

Ask mr Brain...all will be explained

9 Aug 1999

Why is the year Jesus Christ was born called 1 AD? SHIRLEY AU Yuen Long Merchants Association Secondary School The term AD originally meant anno Diocletiani, meaning the year of the Emperor...

Bugged by millennium debate

28 Jul 1999

Surely the biggest problem with regard to the calculation of the date of the millennium is that the 'Letters To The Editor' pages are full of boring letters about calculating the date of the...

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Those who have been proclaiming the year 2000 as the first year of the third millennium clearly have a vested interest in establishing the accuracy of their claim - otherwise they will look...

Wrong date

I refer to my letter headlined, 'Innocent mistake' (South China Morning Post, July 17) about the debate on the starting date of the new millennium.

Interesting mistake

I refer to the letter from Jesse Brown (South China Morning Post, July 10) on the new millennium.

Mr Brown makes an interesting mistake when he states, contra Geoff Alves (letter,...

Following very simple method

Geoff Alves is absolutely wrong in stating that the millennium begins on January 1, 2001 (letter headlined, 'False dawn', South China Morning Post, June 15).

Calculating crucial date

I have to disagree with your reader H. Lloyd (South China Morning Post, June 12) that the new millennium starts on January 1, 2000.

False dawn

To Matthew Bailey (letter, 'Wrong date', South China Morning Post, June 7), your father is correct. You cannot start a new millennium until you have completed the previous one.

A...