Posted on 01/02/2020 7:13:09 AM PST by BDParrish
YouGov, a digital global public opinion company, noted that this is a relatively recent debate so earlier this month it conducted a survey. Of the more than 13,500 people who responded, 64% of Americans said the next decade will begin on Jan. 1, 2020, and end on Dec. 31, 2029. Seventeen percent said the next decade won’t start until Jan. 1, 2021. And 19% weren’t sure. (snip)
Perhaps the reason the majority say the 20s begin tonight as soon as Seacrest shows us the Times Square ball dropping — it’s already done so in Australia — is because culturally we talk about chunks of time, like decades, using words like “the ‘70s, the ‘80s, the ‘90s, the Roaring ‘20s” and this puts an emphasis on the zero’s weight.
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Somebody give this Freeper a prize! LOL!!!!!!!
Are you saying that a new born is 1 immediately and doesn’t have to wait until it has lived a year?
I thought Decade was a double album. Begins on side one, cut one.
Except for the years. There was no 0 year AD, nor was there a 0 BC.
Obviously there were no computers back in Year 1.
And it's a good thing ... can you imagine the hell of making sure they're ready for the jump from BC to AD?! LOL!!!!!! And we though Y2K was bad!
no, quite the opposite. I believe everything starts with zero
Of course “Year 0” for Computers is January 1, 1970.
It begins wherever you place the starting point, and ends 10 years later.
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It ends at the end of the day before “10 years later” House says as he joins the quibbling in the thread. ;-)
which is why I stated that the 1st century only has 99 years. Their mistake. They lose a year. Too bad for them ;)
My Hero Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK9qE81uAGU
Mathematically sure it should be the ...1s. But that just doesn’t fit the language. 2000 doesn’t feel right as part of the 19 hundreds. And 2020 doesn’t fit with the 2010s. Best to just admit the firsts all got short changed a year.
Thanks for your reply. It is not a “mistake” it is an artifact of the Latin language and Roman culture. There is no Roman numeral for zero. They didn’t use it.
It is important for Bible students to understand the Biblical detail of the resurrection. Jesus being crucified on Friday, entombed before sunset, rose again at dawn on Sunday and that was the third day. Any part of a day was a day in their language.
We picked up the Arabic numerals after the crusades and adopted that system because of the number zero. It really works a lot better.
The answer of the article and the survey by YouGov, is that language and culture decides the question, not math. I gather from your comment that you would agree.
Yep.... that’s the one.
Well we have Leap Years, so let's just call it 'even'.
Our callender was supposed to begin at the time of Christ birth (”0”). However, in part because of a Roman mess up, we are well beyond 2020 now!
We are likely now into 2024.
Whatever happened to the metric calendar?
It depends on if you user ZERO based numbering or not...
As any computer programmer can tell you, zero based numbering you have ten when you process the index of 9.
1 based, you haven’t hit 10, until you get to 10.
Not this gain. It starts whenever I want it to start, try to stop me.
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