It begins wherever you place the starting point, and ends 10 years later.
The new decade begins at 2021; 2020 is the end of this decade.
Starting from “zero” point, the tenth year in not completed until the LAST DAY of the tenth year.
Just a peculiarity of the decimal system.
Decades start and end when tradition says they do. Numbers really have nothing to do with it. It’s arbitrary, like January 1 is the start of the new year and not March 3.
It doesn’t matter as long as you hang toilet paper the right way.
The decade begins Jan 1, 2020 - because saying “2020 isn’t part of the ‘20s” is stupid.
Somebody might have to tell the programming director of the 80s station I listen to that all those 1980 songs need to be returned to the 70s station.
2021
It is like science. Not based on consensus
Culturally? It is 2020.
The goofy “well it starts in 2021” is just something to be said to sound aloof to all of the people talking about the “new decade”. The great unsolicited wet blanket.
The calendar has shifted so much over the past 2020 years from a date we dont even have 100% nailed down, it just becomes a pointless to act like 2020 is “the last year of the 2010s”.
Well, since we started with year 1 and not year 0, I say the new decade begins on January 1 of 2021.
I thought Decade was a double album. Begins on side one, cut one.
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.
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?
Not this gain. It starts whenever I want it to start, try to stop me.
Problem with polls anyway, WHO CARES? They should find something better to write about.
a decade is 10 consecutive years. The decade of the 2020s has just begun.
A decade is a ten year frame.
You can put that frame anywhere you want.
The 90s were the years with a 9 in the third position (199X)...when I want to talk about the 90s.
Went to grade school with a guy whose birth certificate listed his birth time as “midnight”, so he didn’t know which day was his birthday.