In a message dated 6/18/99 8:30:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, wagnerl@EARTHLINK.NET writes: > The main idea is > that the transaction between AC and DC was from 001 AC to 001 DC at the > next year, thus never existing the year "zero". You know you do too much engineering when...you refer to dates as AC/DC Minor correction Wagner, I think you meant AD (Anno Domini, in the year of the Lord), and BC (Before Christ). I'm still laughing . Not at you Wagner, please, I mean no offense. Tim H.