Talk:2000

Lead unsubstantiated by DWU

Lead says:

The year 2000, although the focus of celebration of the new millennium, was in fact the last year of the second millenium.

But isn't this directly contradicted by Doctor Who (1996)? I mean, I know it's "correct" (albeit finicky) in the real world to make this statement. I understand the Gregorian calendar argument, there being no year 0 and all. But this is a regular, in-universe article, where the definitive source is a DWU one. And the TVM does point out 2000 is a new millennium. The newscasters expicitly identify it as the millenium in the report about freak weather conditions. More conclusively, Professor Wagg, a global expert on time, says, "Ladies and Gentlemen, in three minutes, the world will enter a new millennium." If anyone in the DWU is gonna be anal about time, surely it's this dude.

That's probably enough to establish how the DWU keeps time. But if you need more, let's go to the secondary source. Doctor Who - The Novel of the Film is rife with references, such as "here he was, three days of the millennium celebrations", "The Opera House had been built just one year earlier to commemorate the forthcoming millennium", "The new millennium was going to be just wonderful", and even a bit that's not contradicted by the film where the Doctor directly says, "Half an hour until the millennium."

So I directly challenge the lead of this article as incorrect. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 06:30, April 2, 2010 (UTC)

To make it worse, from the back cover you can tell the Sixth Doctor does indeed support this view. (Millennial Rites) If we take stories absolutely on their word, will articles like gravity end up looking satirical like TFWiki's articles (see hard hats)? --Nyktimos 21:54, April 2, 2010 (UTC)