Too Soon and Too Late

A bit of trivia: I'm going to spend some time considering the date change from 1999->2000 in this class. This is often been called entering a new millennium but in some sense it is too soon (the new millennium comes later) and it other senses it is too late (the new millennium has already started). But from a mathematical viewpoint numbers with alot of zeros are interesting (so are checks with lots of zeros). An answer