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Why did Humans all over the world celebrate the coming of the new millenium on the wrong date?

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  • Jason
    Lv 7
    6 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    because Prince set the date near 20 yrs earlier

    whose gonna tell Prince he was wrong

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9jvkaswPQ

  • 6 years ago

    We had been used to seeing the number of 19xx on calendar then we were extremely excited to see the number of 2000.

    That's why people all over the world celebrated the coming of the new millenium on the wrong date.

  • 6 years ago

    Because although 2000 was the last year of the 20th century and 2001 the first year of the 21st, changing from 1999 to 2000 had more significance for most people than changing from 2000 to 2001.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    the legendary “secrets of time.”Time is a mental fabrication, It is an illusion.

    This sounds strange until you look at how We arbitrarily manipulates time. “Daylight Savings Time.” “Central Standard Time.” “Leap Year.” All of these are completely made up, with rules that have meaning only because we give them meaning.Who decided how many moments are in a second? Or that 60 seconds would be a minute? That 60 minutes made an hour? Days, weeks, months, years?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaR3sVpTB98

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  • Caz
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Psychological stuff. Like the price of something being 19.99 instead of 20. It seems like a big difference so it matters more than the difference between 20 and 20.01.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Yet you don't tell us what the "right" date is.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    dc, need points

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