Hard to believe the twenty-teens begin in four months...

[Deckerd]

I do get that. I mean I pretended to be a historian at university and get that the 16th century dates all begin 15--.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Heh. It took me an hour to explain that to my Nephew.

 

[cultcross]

OK, we won't be ten years into the new millennium until next December, but we will leave the noughties this December, just as we left the nineties Dec. 31st, 1999. The decade's name is based, as others have said, on the digits in the year, not on where the year falls in the grand scheme of dates. To say 1990 is part of the 80's is stupid, even though technically we were 1989 complete years after the start of the calendar. The name '90's' doesn't refer to that, it refers to the fact it is nineteen ninety.

 

[captcalhoun]

i want my goddamn jetpack!

 

[Deckerd]

Yeah and the flying car.

 

[SilentP]

And robotic house servants!

 

[Smiley]

I'm not going to quote post #20, but I have never seen or heard anyone else say that a year ends in January. They end in December and begin in January.

 

[Shazam!]

The millennium started on whatever date you like.

First Millenium 1-1000 AD
Second Millenium 1001-2000 AD

That's it. No debate.

Until you're using Stardates or the Jewish or Chinese calendars, in which case a thousand orbits are still a thousand orbits. And I hope it's not too lonely in your universe.

However, using numeric decade labels 80's and 90's DO start with the year ending in "0". The 70's are 1970-1979 because it's based on how they're written numerically, not if they're the "first decade" or "second decade".

The 90's were 1990-1999.

But the last decade of the 20th Century was 1991-2000.

It's all in my new book: Off By One: Why Humans Can't Count.

--Ted

*facepalm*

You can have a millennium whenever you want. It's the passing of a 1000 years, not when we reach date X.

 

[Shazam!]

I'm not going to quote post #20, but I have never seen or heard anyone else say that a year ends in January. They end in December and begin in January.

China would like a word.

 

[Kestra]

All those threads and polls about "What are we going to call 2010?" etc. and "twenty teens" is the result? Awful.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

OK, we won't be ten years into the new millennium until next December, but we will leave the noughties this December, just as we left the nineties Dec. 31st, 1999. The decade's name is based, as others have said, on the digits in the year, not on where the year falls in the grand scheme of dates. To say 1990 is part of the 80's is stupid, even though technically we were 1989 complete years after the start of the calendar. The name '90's' doesn't refer to that, it refers to the fact it is nineteen ninety.

From a cultural point of view, I believe the 90s never really began, and the 80s never really ended, until 1993. But I digress...

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ That's usually the case. The early 60s were really much like the 50s and the early 70s were much like the 60s.

You can have a millennium whenever you want. It's the passing of a 1000 years, not when we reach date X.

But, as you know, we're talking about specific centuries and millennia; namely, the ones that are counted to measure dates in the Common Era, beginning with the year 1. The 21st Century and the Third Millennium began in the year 2001.

 

[Trekker4747]

^^ That's usually the case. The early 60s were really much like the 50s and the early 70s were much like the 60s.

You can have a millennium whenever you want. It's the passing of a 1000 years, not when we reach date X.

But, as you know, we're talking about specific centuries and millennia; namely, the ones that are counted to measure dates in the Common Era, beginning with the year 1. The 21st Century and the Third Millennium begin in the year 2001.

Actually it began in 2001.

 

[RJDiogenes]

So they did. Another one of my little bouts with amnesia, I guess....

 

[Zulu Romeo]

^^ That's usually the case. The early 60s were really much like the 50s and the early 70s were much like the 60s.

Someone once suggested that the 20th Century really began on 28th June 1914, and ended on 11th September 2001.

 

[RJDiogenes]

That's a pretty accurate assessment, culturally speaking.

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm not going to quote post #20,

I will!

Actually it ends in 2011.

Even with 2001 as a starting date, the end of the first 10 years of the millennium would be 2010. The 2010s start in 2010, though.

1. Jan 2001 - Jan 2002
2. Jan 2002 - Jan 2003
3. Jan 2003 - Jan 2004
4. Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
5. Jan 2005 - Jan 2006
6. Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
7. Jan 2007 - Jan 2008
8. Jan 2008 - Jan 2009
9. Jan 2009 - Jan 2010
10. Jan 2010 - Jan 2011.

Thanks for playing.

Sorry, Trekker, January 2011 is in no way a part of 2010. Years end on December 31.

 

[Candlelight]

Actually it began in 2001.

If you wanna start getting cocky, it started... well... years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar



Also, what was that period in the 15th or 16th century when they got rid of like 3 weeks in September to bring everything into alignment?

Ah fuck it: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

 

[RoJoHen]

Also, what was that period in the 15th or 16th century when they got rid of like 3 weeks in September to bring everything into alignment?

Did they really? Weird.

Who is in charge of stuff like that? Didn't they add a second to the end of last year? Who are "they," and why do they have the power to alter time?

 

[bigdaddy]

There is no year zero the decade doesn't end until 2011.

Also how is 20-TEN, 20-ELEVEN, AND 20-TWELVE teen years?