At 09:05 PM 01/05/2000 -0800, J. R. Molloy wrote:
>> Another ordinal-cardinal situation is hours on the
>> clock. There is a zero hour (00:00 - 01:00), which
>> is hour 1 when counting ordinally, and thus the
>> hour 23 (cardinal) is hour 24 (ordinal). The
>> years we use as dates are ordinal counting,
>> which is not really an issue in dispute.
>
>What do you mean "we"? Most people consider this the 21st century.
IAN: Mass ignorance is hardly an argument.
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