Well as usual some amateur gives it a shot and falls short of the mark.
Starting from 586 and applying new light we arrive at the true date of June 13, 2004.
Now that's 2,589 years. Remember there was no zero year. Now the Gentile Times if I recall correctly from the old JW books were a time and times and half a time. So what happened to 1914?
Well it's not simple. The big guy upstairs didn't bother to tell the early writers of the Bible that our years are 365.25 days in length instead of the nice round number 360 that they switched to after the nasty Y1Kbc crash. Leap years and the 16 month calender were forbidden back then, you'll recall, and anyone who claimed February had 29 days or even mentioned the month of Octember was stoned to death.
Therefore the time difference has to be factored in and that's why the indefinite phrase "time and times and half a time" was used and that's why the bible says "let the reader use discernment". The use of the singular word "time" refers to the calender without a leap year and the plural "times" refers to the adoption of the complicated leap year system by France and their imposing it on the rest of the world in 1914 which resulted in an angry invasion by Germany and the start of World War I. The "half a time" was erroneously placed at the end of the phrase by translators in the Middle Ages but actually should come between "time" and "times".
Sept. 11 is irrelevant to the whole equation.
When the "time and times and half a time" are added to the starting point of 586 bc, the date of June 13, 2004 is reached. That's when the Olsen Twins turn 18.
Duh!
Mike.
p.s. Sept. 11 was not some mystical prophetic fullfillment of anything. Nostradamus didn't prophesy it any more than he did the O.J. trial. All that dark day was was a bunch of poor religious wackos led by a rich religious wacko hell bent on murdering anyone and everyone who doesn't want to live in the 15th century. Got it?!