Oxnard Wiki:Dispute/2000-2001 controversy

Over the past years, we have been arguing to when a century or millennium really begins. As a matter of fact, there is no official date to when a decade, century, or millennium really begins because there are many types of centuries and millennias, for example a 1002-2001 millennium begins in 1002 and ends in 2001, that can be a millennium, but there is no official name for it to be recognized.

The 3rd millennium strictly emcopasses the years 2000-2999, this is because all the years begin with a '2'. See more below:

2001 siders
People siding with the 2001-starts-the-millennium crowd are more aggressive than 2000 siders. They site because the gregorian calendar does not have a year zero, all centuries must start ending with '01' and end with '00' as the last two digits, the same logic follows with millenniums (*001-*000). They however are technically wrong as Dionysius (Dennis the small) did not start the counting of our AD system with AD 1, he stated that the starting point of the calendar is to mark the birth of Christ, since Jesus Christ was not born in 0001, he could've been born two to five years earlier than thought. Making this an arbitrary date, so the starting point of the calendar must be between 1993-1997. Therefore it makes more sense that the 2001 siders may technically sound right, but they aren't. In fact, the modern calendar (The calendar that ISO runs, they are charge of timekeeping) begins with the number 0, making 2000 the actual start.

Therefore the 2001 siders are wrong.

2000 siders
The year 2000 does not have a starting point, but it's officially known by most people as the new millennium and century, and they are correct. Computers, The government, experts, and astronomers also agree that 2000 is the start of the millennium. The reason why 2000 is the start and 2999 is the end, make sense is because they all begin with a '2' as their first digit. The first year of the Modern calendar (The general calendar to some people) was 0. Making 0-999 the first millennium, 1000-1999 the second millennium, and the third is 2000-2999. The gregorian calendar does not have a year zero, but starts between 4 BC - 7 BC.