The Millennium/21st Century

[Darkstar]

Schools should encourage children born in 2000 to study what happened in the couple of years before they were born - how 100s of millions (maybe billions?) of people throughout the world were led to believe (and an awful lot of them still appear to believe) that the 21st century began on 1st Jan 2000.

People say: 'Does it matter?'

So wait... the twenty-first century started in 2001? Hmm...

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. The first century is 1-100, 2nd = 101-200, etc. since there isn't actually a year zero. But seriously, who cares? The bigger common mistake people make is assuming 17th century = 1700s. But when you look back, you realize that there was no zeroth century for pre-100 C.E., so yeah.