When did it end/start, of course we celebrated the end of the last millennia and the start of the new one on 31st December 1999. That makes sense to me, is the same way that I am 55 years old though am in my 56th year, 1999 was the 1000 year of the millennia and at midnight in 31st December 1999 1000 years had elapsed since the end of the previous millennia.
So 23:59:59 on 31st December 1999 was the last second of the last minute of the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the last decade of the last century of the last millennia.
However some subscribe to the view that we should have celebrated the millennium on 31st December 2000, and there are apparently a few different arguments for this, one of which is that we are talking about time relative to the birth of Christ and that at the time people would have commenced counting at "1" and not at "0" - I cant say I agree with that as people were familiar with decimal and fractions in those days currency existed and transactional arrangements were made all of which required a numerical understanding that surely would have been applied to time.
Thoughts and opinions?
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Millennium new
Millennium new