Happy 2013! (Thoughts on Dates and Calendars)
Channel: Cy Kyanos (126)
Date: 02/01/2013

Happy New Year! As we celebrate a new year (in the Gregorian calendar, anyway), consider a few things.

1. Midnight
2. Turns of Centuries and Millennia
3. CE

(Update 8 June 2013: The links seem to have failed... 14 Jun: Fixed!)
Background music sources:
"Auld Lang Syne" performed by the United States Navy Band, from http://www.navyband.navy.mil/anthems/misc.htm (link "Auld Lang Syne")
"Auld Lang Syne" performed by Frank C. Stanley, from Wikimedia Commons ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Auld_Lang_Syne.ogg ), originally from the University of California, Santa Barbara Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project ( http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=@attr%201=1016&query=auld&num=1&start=2&sortBy=&sortOrder=ia )

"Error 2000" picture: http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-most-famous-doomsday-prophecies-that-failed.php/y2k-bug