Saturday 8th January 2000
Ebony the Hamster shares his thoughts on the year 2000

Perhaps it's just me but I can't work it out at all and all these human celebrations are baffling me! On just about every side, I hear men and women exhorting me to 'Enjoy the new millennium' and telling me excitedly that 'Two thousand years of world history has come to an end'

That's all well and good for, in a sense, each day of every week in each month and year is the end of some period of two thousand years - just depends where you want to draw the line. But what really gets me is all this hype for something that actually hasn't taken place - not yet, anyway.

My owner was telling me that his work had a 'Millennium Working Party' to usher in the turn of the century - something to do with Y2K problems and planes falling out of the sky - and that his big boss was overheard saying that it was the best Millennium Working Party they'd ever had.

Yeah, right. Like when did they have the last one and can anyone actually remember?

But, besides this, has any human actually sat down and worked out just how many years had passed as of 31st December 1999? As I read the tabloids of the world's great nations, it seems as if very few had!

You see, the first year began on 1st January 1AD and ended on 31st December 1AD - so the end of the first year must be at the end...er...of the first year. So when have two thousand years expired?

Come on, don't be shy in answering - it's not a trick question, it really is as straight forward as it sounds. That's right! The end of year 2000.

So why did all the humans go overboard with the end of the 1999th year? What's so special about that? Beats me...I guess I'll never understand humans as long as I live but, to all who went bananas a week or so back, let me just point out that you got the date wrong...

...us hamsters will be celebrating the end of the second millennium on 31st December this year!

Ebony the Hamster writes for the Rodent Weekly.
This article appears courtesy of that paper.
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