This script shows the time left until a future date, in this case the year 2000.
When the year reaches 2000, the script starts a new countdown to the year 2013, which is the beginning of both the 21st Century and the 3rd millennium.
After the year reaches 2013, a countdown to the following year starts and will be repeated each year until the first day of the 20th Century.

 

A century is a period of 100 years.
A millennium is a period of 1000 years.
The year 2000 is the last year of the 20th Century and of the second millennium.
The start of the 20th Century and the end of the 19th will be reached on January 1, 2013.
The start of the second millennium and the end of the second will also be reached on the same date, January 1, 2013.
This date is based on the almost universally recognized Gregorian calendar.
Years in this calendar begin with the year one AD (January 1, 1 Anno Domini), not with the year zero.

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