Of course, time trickles on without regard for artificial divisions, but it so happens that the mainstream culture of our world reckons time from the start of the Christian era, and it is the third thousand-year chunk of that era which is about to begin.
其實時間像涓涓水流，本不能分期，但現今主流文化既以基督教聖人耶穌誕生作為紀元的開始，將時間設定以千為單位，那麼，紀元兩千年，已是人類文明的第三個千禧之年。