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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No 0 AD. The calendar goes from 1 BC to 1 AD.
Well you are iterating 10 times inside the loop, but the loop as you wrote it actually does the compare portion 11 times.
Well you are iterating 10 times inside the loop, but the loop as you wrote it actually does the compare portion 11 times. As does my loop..
Which is the point zero based counting. When you hit 9 you have done 10
It starts in 2021. But I’m going to start early, to beat the traffic.
don’t you love arguments where both sides are right?
ask the cat...
“Tastes Great!”
“Less Filling!”
When God breathed the Breath of Life into Adam, it was 1/1/0000 as far as humans were concerned -— and thus began the first decade of human life. The year 1/1/0001 was the anniversary of the first year of life. If you do not consider that the decade starts at 0, then do we call a newborn 1yr before their first birthday, or newlyweds leaving the wedding 1yr married??? No -— in human reckoning, all things seem to start at 0. You live your first year of life, marriage, the job, or anything else -— but it is not 1yr until the anniversary of the start date. Just my opinion, of course.
Starting from “zero” point, the tenth year in not completed until the LAST DAY of the tenth year.
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This brings back memories of the remarks of my three year baby daughter after watching a video of herself as an infant: “When I was zero years old...”
Semantically correct, but hilarious!
You mean it’s 2020 all ready? Huh......
“Kids say the darnedest things.”...Art Linkletter
From “HOUSE PARTY”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFXti_KRcLw
It’s good one!
Another of my daughter. When we lived in the Boston area, sometimes we would go to Chinatown to get groceries and maybe have going to lunch at a noodle restaurant.
Well, we were at the beach in the summertime (Cape Cod) and the kids are digging a big hole in the sand, and I asked what are you doing there? My daughter says, “We’re digging a hole to Chinatown”.
LOL
When “China Town” is inserted into the conversation the movie with Kurt Russell comes to mind:
https://www.fandango.com/big-trouble-in-little-china-1986-583/movie-overview
Never saw that Kurt Russell flick by I like him as an actor.
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Change subject. Just love the way President Trump give a 4:00 minute talk about “eliminating” the “monster” in Iraq.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump?lang=en
That’s my man!
“The future belongs to the people of Iran.”
d’rats have heads exploding 8-)
I’ve always assumed that 12:00 AM (midnight) is the beginning of the next day; but apparently it hasn’t been that clear:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noon_and_midnight
The three days comes from the JEwish calendar, not the Roman one. Jesus was crucified before sundown on Friday so its one day. The Sabbath (Friday night to Saturday night) was the second. He supposedly rose Sunday morning, ie the third day, but not 72 hours
Yes you are right that the days are the same from the Jewish calendar. I was a Latin teacher at the Christian School, so if you have something that shows the Romans would not have counted part of a day as a day, I would really love to see that Thanks!
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