[The Toddler]

Sent this out circa 1130: Well, I finally had it with the tards who think we are starting a new decade. Look, zero is a point, a transition. It has NO value. There was never a collection of 365 days that, when ended, was called “Year Zero”. Correspondingly, 10 has value and rightly ends where “eleven” starts. The decade of the “twenties” begins at the transition point midnight 31DEC2020/01JAN2021, approximately 365 days from today (leap year...). That is all. My Christian history professor thanks you.

Then why do it start with a 20?

20 not 19 regards

[grey_whiskers]

Sent this out circa 1130: Well, I finally had it with the tards who think we are starting a new decade. Look, zero is a point, a transition. It has NO value. There was never a collection of 365 days that, when ended, was called “Year Zero”. Correspondingly, 10 has value and rightly ends where “eleven” starts. The decade of the “twenties” begins at the transition point midnight 31DEC2020/01JAN2021, approximately 365 days from today (leap year...). That is all. My Christian history professor thanks you.

A modest proposal for 2020

[Defiant]

I agree with you.

The century started in 2001. However, there are no rules for what the definition of a decade is, it is a more recent man-made construct. It has been used to describe an era. If you call something the 20’s and don’t include 2020, that’s kind of stupid, isn’t it? By definition, it is every year within a century whose last two digits end in twenty something.