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Letter: New millennium, Y2K not related

Thursday, Oct. 21, 1999 | 10 a.m.

If my understanding of the calender is correct Jan. 1, 2000 is the first day of the last year of the 20th century, hence the first day of the last year of the second millennium.

Jan. 1, 2001 is the first day of the 21st century, hence the first day of the third millennium A.D.

GEORGE W. LARSON

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