The birthday that separates having spent more time in this century than the last should be adressed specifically

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Year 2000 is 20th century. 21st century started on January 1st, 2001.

I know this, yet I still celebrated the new century/Millenium with the rest of humanity on Jan 1st, 2000.

It's just aesthetically more pleasing to conveniently ignore the technicality.