when does the decade start

2020 VS 2021

  • 2020 is the beginning of the decade

  • 2021 is the correct answer

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GotWood

GotWood

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So which is it? Does the decade start this year in 2020 or next year 2021?
 
2020. Kinda like midnight is the end/start of the day, the zero hour. This is the zero year.
 
I think it starts when your jeep is on the road. :flipoff2:
 
You're wrong.
 
Both are valid,'1' is ordinal, the other is Cardinal. But most of the time a decade is referred to by its Cardinal years though, ie; "The 70's" so 0 thru 9 and is the more usual use.
 
Well the new millennium started at midnight 1999/2000... therefore the second decade must end 12/31/2019 midnight...

Just like this was my son's 8th Christmas, but he doesn't turn 8 until may. Had to explain this to my wife, twice, as well...


Just like this is the 21st century, and the 3rd millennium...

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It all depends when you starting counting them up.

I mean, you could start counting sets of 10 after the first 3 have past if you wanted, making the second counted decade starting in year 0014.
It's all relative....
 
a little devils advocate here.
1. a persons life starts at 0 yrs. doesnt apply
2. Just because something is generally accepted doesnt create fact
3. The reason i love mathematics is that it is defensible
4. Blanket statements of fact without support are as useful as a democrat in congress.

It is accepted that the zero years are the start of a term (decade, century) but not supported mathematically
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All that said, i understand gotwoods thoughts in starting this thread. Zuke makes a logical thought out arguement. I agree that this is how the world we live in sees the accounting of the passage of time. I personally dont care how man tracks time. The Lord gives a day at a time and he has those numbered for you.
 
sawdoff said:
a little devils advocate here.
1. a persons life starts at 0 yrs. doesnt apply
2. Just because something is generally accepted doesnt create fact
3. The reason i love mathematics is that it is defensible
4. Blanket statements of fact without support are as useful as a democrat in congress.

It is accepted that the zero years are the start of a term (decade, century) but not supported mathematically
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All that said, i understand gotwoods thoughts in starting this thread. Zuke makes a logical thought out arguement. I agree that this is how the world we live in sees the accounting of the passage of time. I personally dont care how man tracks time. The Lord gives a day at a time and he has those numbered for you.
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What you're saying is I'm right. That's all that matters.
 
2020 because if a kid was born at 12:00:01 am on 1/1/2020 it would be one year old at the same time in 2021.
 
Y2K was the biggest letdown of my life!
 
trailhugger said:
All I know is @shawn and I were living outside DC and at our Best Man's house for NYE, laughing about Y2K... TWENTY years ago.
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No joke. Where'd those two decades go?

Biggest anticlimactic moment ever.
 
from wiki

No year zero: start and end of a century[edit]
Further information: year zero, Astronomical year numbering, Millennium, and Century
In the AD year numbering system, whether applied to the Julian or Gregorian calendars, AD 1 is immediately preceded by 1 BC. There is no year "0" between them, so a new century begins in a year which has "01" as the final digits (e.g., 1801, 1901, 2001). New millennia likewise are considered to have begun in 1001 and 2001. This is at odds with the common conception that centuries and millennia begin when the trailing digits are zeroes (1800, 1900, 2000, etc.); for example, the worldwide celebration of the new millennium took place on New Year's Eve 1999, when the year number ticked over to 2000.[9]

For computational reasons, astronomical year numbering and the ISO 8601 standard designate years so that AD 1 = year 1, 1 BC = year 0, 2 BC = year −1, etc.[note 5] In common usage, ancient dates are expressed in the Julian calendar, but ISO 8601 uses the Gregorian calendar and astronomers may use a variety of time scales depending on the application. Thus dates using the year 0 or negative years may require further investigation before being converted to BC or AD.
 
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