Is today the start of a new decade, or is that not until 2021?
Is today the start of a new decade, or is that not until 2021?
Most people probably think decades start on 0, so they start on 0...regardless of whether or not that's technically accurate.
People are just being pedantic about it to sound clever...
The millenium started in 1/1/2001, so i think the decade will start next year accordingly.
Technically, we're still in the second decade of the 21th century until January 1st of 2021.
That's just needless pedantry though to make a fuss about it, as it diverges from common usage.
Well was the very first year year 0 or year 1? That should answer your question.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
That doesn't matter, we defined it this way. No year zero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
There is no Year 0 in our calendar, it goes 1 B.C. to 1 A.D., nothing in between.
Which means the first decade was 1-10, not 0-9, which consequently means that every decade after that follows this scheme.
(On a side note, the Julian Calendar which preceeded our Gregorian Calendar also has no Year 0, it only really differs in handling of leap years to ours - and the Julian Calendar actually existed around what would've been (but wasn't) year zero)
Last edited by Nevcairiel; 2020-01-01 at 05:51 PM.
Yeah I actually forgot the Romans did not have a zero, which I should know because I know there is no numeral for zero.
For some reason though, as per decades, the 2020s is defined as a new decade. The 1901/2001 thing only seems to be common for centuries and millennia.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Defined by what? The average person on the street? Thats not really an authority.
All of these words, decade, century, millenium, all they really only define is a span of time, 10, 100, 1000 years respectively, they do not imply any starting point.
But if one is talking about the 203rd decade in our calendar, then that starts next year. If one wants to call it the "2020's", then it might as well start today.
That might explain why centuries are less confusing, because its far more common to say the 19th century, the 20th century, the 21st century, but noone really refers to a decade by its ordinal number. 203rd decade? I bet you the majority of people you would ask what that means would get the answer wrong.
Last edited by Nevcairiel; 2020-01-01 at 06:43 PM.
I'm a programmer. Arrays start at zero. Decades are an array of years with a length of 10. This is the 0th year of this decade, ergo, new decade.
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Depends whether you mean the cardinal or ordinal decade. The ordinal decade starts at 2021, cardinal (the 2020s) started today.
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