And: > The new millenium will be celebrated, I predict, at the change > from 19.9.9 to 20.0.0, rather than at the end of the 2000th year. This very topic is currently under discussion in soc.culture.esperanto My prediction is that it will be celebrated both Dec 31 1999 and Dec 31 2000. Since there are partisans for both dates, why not have big parties both times? Jorge