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[William F Hammond]

A tangential observation.

Jonathan Fine writes in part:

> Pedantry alert. Wikipedia and the Library of Congress state
> that the 21st century started on 1 January 2001.

That is relative to the Gregorian calendar, but it differs
from common parlance, at least on this side of the Atlantic
Ocean.

Moreover, just as we now have ISO 10646 for characters, we
have ISO 8601 as a calendar standard, in which the Gregorian
year 1 BCE is the year 0.

     🙂


                              -- Bill


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