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Here we go again....


Dec 31, 2019, 6:40 PM

Today does not end the 20teens decade. It will end a year from now.

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are our computers all going to crash again? ***


Dec 31, 2019, 6:41 PM



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nope the decade started with 2010 and ends tonight


Dec 31, 2019, 6:43 PM

for instance the 70's went from January 1, 1970 to December 31, 1979.

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Re: nope the decade started with 2010 and ends tonight


Dec 31, 2019, 6:47 PM

Who cares?

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Correct.***


Dec 31, 2019, 7:00 PM [ in reply to nope the decade started with 2010 and ends tonight ]



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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken


Re: nope the decade started with 2010 and ends tonight


Dec 31, 2019, 7:04 PM [ in reply to nope the decade started with 2010 and ends tonight ]

Sure. But that just means means the 1970s ended on December 31, 1979, and the 2010s end tonight. If ten years = "a decade," then those (the '70s, the '10s) are decades.

But that doesn't mean "the 22nd decade" of AD (or CE, or "the year of Our Lord," if you prefer) ends tonight. Because the first decade of that measurement began on January 1, 1--not January 1, 0.

The first decade of AD ended when ten years had passed--that is, on January 1, 11. Carry it forward.




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Appears you are missing something


Dec 31, 2019, 7:14 PM

like time can begin with zero but it doesn't stop there. Time measure itself in every second, minute, day, week , month, etc. from zero to 1 - that then is the first year. Unless you think time does not move between the zero and the 1???

The first decade, as you give in you example, actually is a measure of 11 years. look at it this way:

1/1/0 - 1/1/1 = 1 year
1/1/1 - 1/1/2 = 2 years
1/1/2 - 1/1/3 = 3 years
1/1/3 - 1/1/4 = 4 years
1/1/4 - 1/1/5 = 5 years
1/1/5 - 1/1/6 = 6 years
1/1/6 - 1/1/7 = 7 years
1/1/7 - 1/1/8 = 8 years
1/1/8 - 1/1/9 = 9 years
1/1/9 - 1/1/10 = 10 years

1/1/10 - 1/1/11 = 11 years (this is the first year of the second decade)




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John 3:16; 14:1-6


Re: Appears you are missing something


Dec 31, 2019, 7:21 PM

THERE WAS NO YEAR ZERO!

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Re: Appears you are missing something


Dec 31, 2019, 7:22 PM

Look back at your example. You're measuring the beginning of the first decade from "January 1, 0."

There never was such a year.

Except maybe in Pol Pot's Cambodia...

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Dec 31, 2019, 7:32 PM

Well, I took a look and found this in an article from CNN - they say it depends on who you ask:

"...was done in 731 by a monk known as the Venerable Bede. Bede counted the years before Christ and established the BC era, but he didn't include a year zero in his calculations. Which means that the year before 1 AD was 1 BC."

AND

"That's why Konstantin Bikos, lead editor of TimeandDate.com, says that both definitions of when the new decade begins are correct. No need to cancel your end-of-the-decade party....

...There's two different ways of categorizing 10 years," he told CNN. "It could be from the year ending in 0 to the year ending in 9, or the year ending in 1 to the year ending in 0."



So - we are both right! or, both wrong...guess it depends. On what? I don't know. :)

Can't wait to tell my kids they are a year older since time begins with a 1. Hope the IRS don't get wind of this - that could turn out bad.

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John 3:16; 14:1-6


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Dec 31, 2019, 8:16 PM

What drives folks nuts about all this is that it's not the same way we measure time in almost any other way.

When babies are born, they don't start out at 1. We say they are "three months old," "six months old," etc. Those babies "turn 1" at the end of a year of life, so at the beginning of age 1, they are beginning their SECOND year of life.

But at the end of the year 2019, we are BEGINNING the 2020th year. We're not finishing it. So the 22nd decade of AD doesn't end until January 1, 2021.

All good, and sorry to have shouted in the previous post. Happy New Year! And Happy 2020s!




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Re: Appears I am missing something


Dec 31, 2019, 8:23 PM

No problems here.. sorry I got a bit sideways too! Happy New Year to you and your family as well. :)

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John 3:16; 14:1-6


just keep telling people that 1980 was in the '70's because


Dec 31, 2019, 8:31 PM [ in reply to Re: Appears I am missing something ]

of year zero



The answer is we had to fix the first decade to make it work out. Just like we added a leap year day every 4 years and add a few milliseconds to time ever so often. As the sun loses mass its gravitational force decreases and we get a little farther away. Our spin also slows down due to friction so every day is shorter than the day before.

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So age is measured in “years completed”, but time is


Dec 31, 2019, 10:07 PM [ in reply to Re: Appears I am missing something ]

Measured in “years started”?

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Re: So age is measured in “years completed”, but time is


Jan 1, 2020, 8:39 AM

The calendar doesn't "measure time." It designates years. And it STARTS with Year One.

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Dec 31, 2019, 7:40 PM [ in reply to Appears you are missing something ]

Anno Domini - Wikipedia
This calendar era is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth, with AD counting years from the start of this epoch, and BC denoting years before the start of the era. There is no year zero in this scheme, so the year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC.

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Re: Here we go again....


Dec 31, 2019, 6:50 PM

This is as confusing as determining which years we won Nattys..

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Re: Here we go again....


Dec 31, 2019, 7:08 PM

Bad enough having to play the Natty the next year.

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not football related


Dec 31, 2019, 7:42 PM

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Why do dogs always race to the door when the doorbell rings? It's almost never for them.


Re: Here we go again....


Dec 31, 2019, 8:24 PM

The first “decade” post Christ was only 9 years long, it wasn’t a full decade.

Sometimes things don’t work out perfectly from start to finish.

It is much more reasonable to measure decades by the beginning number, and not by the first year over two thousand years ago that really should have started at zero because it wasn’t a full year yet.

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This ruined Newman's millennium party on Seinfeld***


Dec 31, 2019, 8:34 PM



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Re: Here we go again....


Dec 31, 2019, 8:46 PM

And Clemson’s 15 minutes of fame end 2 weeks from now.

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Re: Here we go again....


Dec 31, 2019, 9:15 PM

Remind me when LSU had fame? Sexual assault charges not withstanding.

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Re: Here we go again....


Jan 1, 2020, 8:42 AM

it doesn't matter
the Tigers are still undefeated and Trump is still your president

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Re: Here we go again....


Jan 1, 2020, 8:51 AM

Here's a factoid related to time:

Indians (not American Indians, but those that are in the country called India) are 1 year old when they are born, and their ages are based on that. So after 365(or 366) days from birth, they become 2 years old, etc. An American and an India Indian born on the same day is always 1 year younger than the Indian.

At least every India Indian that I have known does it that way.

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