Maybe getting Time to learn how to count might be an improvement.
January 1, 2001 was the first day of the new decade and it still has a year until it ends on December 31, 2010 (e.g. the 10th year of the 2000’s). 2000 was the 10th year of the 1990’s.
The 1860’s - 500,000 American dead out of a much smaller population than we have today. The decade from 1911 through 1920 - WWI and a severe recession at the end. The 1940’s - WWII. The i960’s - 50,000 American dead in Vietnam, race riots, cultural anarchy, the Great Society, poitical assasinations. None of these decades caught Time’s attention?