At 23:47 20/10/1995 +0000, you wrote: >---------- >to all our maritime history colleagues -- Happy 190th Trafalgar Day, Oct. 21 Trafalgar ? Trafalgar ? Waterloo ? Waterloo ? I do not remember of anything like it anywhere... Vive Napoleon ! Vive la France ! :-) >as for decades, it is probably going to be impossible to stop folks from having >a big, misinformed party the night of 31 Dec 1999. So, we might just have to >agree the first century of this era had only 99 years, the first to 99AD, and >the second century began in the year 100. > >I am still worried about all the two digit date boxes in my computer when the >calendar changes and I have to tell the difference between 1901 and 2001. > >cheers >Mac Swackhammer >trapped inland > > Jean-Paul Viaud, curator Canadian Railway Museum Delson/St-Constant, Quebec, Canada