I have a TG (Thai) flight that afternoon, BKK-HKT, but I am confident that all will be fine. 12:00 Midnight in most time zones is rather quiet for air traffic anyway.

My thoughts:

Clocks and calanders are really just a frame of reference. It really doesn't matter what day it is or what time it is, what matters is that we all agree on the same date and time.

We should completely change our clocks and calanders anyway. Different cultures use different calanders and we should adopt a new one that is not bias towards a particular culture. We should also change our clocks to all be set to GMT or Zulu time so that we have no more time zones (so what if I eat my breakfast at 1400 and the sun sets at 0200, as long as it is the same time everyday)

Maybe we should also go to "celcius" time ? *L*

There is no bad luck of Friday 13th; earthquakes, storms, and other natural disasters have no concept of the date, so there will be no doomsday in year 2000.

As far as I am concerned, when the year goes from a '1***' to a '2***' it is a new millennium....lets celebrate. For all you who wait until 2001, you're going to miss it all!

One thing is certain...for the next millennia, it will be 2000 and something, and for the past millennia(assuming someone didn't change our calanders without telling us) we have been using a 1000 and something. So I am going to celebrate a millennia of 1000 and something going out and a millennia of 2000 and something coming in.

In 2001, you will not be able to celebrate a millennia of 1000 and something because the year 2000 will already have pasted and as for the next millennia, there will only be 999 years of 2000 and something left!

I think people are confusing the intention of the celebrations. For the literal christians of the world, I think they want to celebrate a literal period of 2000 years since a person in their history was born. But the majority of the world is not christian, so that means we are celebrating the year itself - 2000. I assume that even non-christian governments will have year 2000 celebrations.

[This message has been edited by Aubie (edited 12-17-1999).]

Ufff ... I'm confused and need a beer http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I'm booked for a January 1, 2000 return flight. (U.S. domestic only, so I feel reasonably comfortable about the safety. And if need be, the destination, Seattle, is close enough that I could just take a bus back to San Jose, provided that buses are running, of course, which I expect they will....)

Star Date: 14259.7, Captain's personal log.

Might have to do a mileasge run (Will cost me $1,200 but it worth 55,000 miles) from YVR to HNL 31 Dec,

Flight leaves YVR 1900 and arrives into HNL just before 2400 but that is after if turns to 00 GMT. Does that count? A/c witll be either a DC-10-30 or a 747-400

All this Calendar mess had me post this .. Do we consider the Hindu Calendar or the Chinese Calendar, probably the oldest ? Or the Muslim Calendar, later than the Christian one ? It is because of the status English, the language enjoys, that this Calendar / Millenium thing comes into play, right ? Whichever way, cheers .......
Happy New Year everybody !! [Hick] http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
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