A DAY GOES BY without a reference to preparations for the new millennium. A millennium is a period of 1,000 years.
Most people think it does, and they're wrong.
This reasoning also applies to counting years. The second millennium does not end in 1999, and the third does not begin in 2000. I'm not the only one aware of the mistake. There must be people in the major news network like ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN who will read this column and are intelligent enough to understand the mistake. Moreover, they have the means to get the word out.