Today Dec 31st 2019 is not the last day of the current decade

[Dizzy28]

Been seeing and hearing on radio a lot of people both locally and internationally posting about the past decade and looking forward to the next one. However not to be the fly in the ointment this current decade ends on Dec 31st 2020.

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/new-deca ... 021-100900

I am sure some of you all here would think differently

[maj. tom]

Humans celebrate milestones in Base 10 and zero is a starting number. 2020 is a more significant number than 2021 in counting in our system. Same thing with the 2000 millennium parties, even though the millennium didn't end in the counting calendar until 2001, not 1999. It's just a human thing to experience life in decimal Base 10.

[Dizzy28]

Humans celebrate milestones in Base 10 and zero is a starting number. 2020 is a more significant number than 2021 in counting in our system. Same thing with the 2000 millennium parties, even though the millennium didn't end in the counting calendar until 2001, not 1999. It's just a human thing to experience life in decimal Base 10.

The Gregorian Calendar (counting calendar) has no 0 though.

Human emotion can't trump basic Maths.

[Rovin]

what tom said ... \ thread

[toyota2nr]

People are more concerned with the significance of the change of date

[VexXx Dogg]

Humans celebrate milestones in Base 10 and zero is a starting number. 2020 is a more significant number than 2021 in counting in our system. Same thing with the 2000 millennium parties, even though the millennium didn't end in the counting calendar until 2001, not 1999. It's just a human thing to experience life in decimal Base 10.

Yup.
That's why people had the monster 1999 parties. Twas awesome to be 18 then

[Dizzy28]

Humans celebrate milestones in Base 10 and zero is a starting number. 2020 is a more significant number than 2021 in counting in our system. Same thing with the 2000 millennium parties, even though the millennium didn't end in the counting calendar until 2001, not 1999. It's just a human thing to experience life in decimal Base 10.

Yup.
That's why people had the monster 1999 parties. Twas awesome to be 18 then

I was 18 in 1999 as well!!
I had lost 50lbs between writing As in June of that year and Dec 31st so it was shaping up to be a good time transitioning from fatboy to normal sized going to UWI.

Pity it wasn't actually the start of the Millennium though

[adnj]

Humans celebrate milestones in Base 10 and zero is a starting number. 2020 is a more significant number than 2021 in counting in our system. Same thing with the 2000 millennium parties, even though the millennium didn't end in the counting calendar until 2001, not 1999. It's just a human thing to experience life in decimal Base 10.

The Gregorian Calendar (counting calendar) has no 0 though.

Human emotion can't trump basic Maths.

There are two methods of counting decades in recognition. One, called ordinal, counts decades starting with the first year 1 CE (For example, the years 1981–1990 is referred to as the 199th decade), while the other, called cardinal, groups years based on having the same digits (For example, the years 1980–1989 is referred to as the 1980s, or commonly known as the eighties).

About 65% of people surveyed use the cardinal system of counting for decades, centuries and millenia.

[FrankChag]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s

The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens" or "two thousand (and) tens"[1][2]) is the current decade in parts of the world where the time zone is earlier than UTC+08:45. It is part of the Gregorian calendar, and began on 1 January 2010 and ends on 31 December 2019.

if you're going to jump in and say don't quote wikipedia, well, britannica wasn't much help.. https://www.britannica.com/search?query=21st+century

[De Dragon]

Humans celebrate milestones in Base 10 and zero is a starting number. 2020 is a more significant number than 2021 in counting in our system. Same thing with the 2000 millennium parties, even though the millennium didn't end in the counting calendar until 2001, not 1999. It's just a human thing to experience life in decimal Base 10.

Yup.
That's why people had the monster 1999 parties. Twas awesome to be 18 then

Damn youths! I was already living on my own for about 5 years by then, but yeah, what a time!

[Reddis]

I could remember(decades ago) doing Biology and the first chapter was Chapter 0.
Teacher explained that in nature and by extension everything starts from zero.
The First Century was from 0 years to year 99.
From the beginning of Year 100 that would of been the starting of the 2nd Century and so on until present.
Similarly
A measuring stick/ruler starts from zero.

Humans just start counting from zero because In reality, no one will say zero apples or zero oranges .
Well... Yes we do...

Just my lil take.

[FrankChag]

I could remember(decades ago) doing Biology and the first chapter was Chapter 0.
Teacher explained that in nature and by extension everything starts from zero.
The First Century was from 0 years to year 99.
From the beginning of Year 100 that would of been the starting of the 2nd Century and so on until present.
Similarly
A measuring stick/ruler starts from zero.

Humans just start counting from zero because In reality, no one will say zero apples or zero oranges .
Well... Yes we do...

Just my lil take.

Have a read, guys. This has been a good debate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero

^^^
"The year zero does not exist..."

[FrankChag]

also, for the statically inclined, look up ratio vs interval scales... eg..
https://www.questionpro.com/blog/ratio- ... val-scale/

[Reddis]

also, for the statically inclined, look up ratio vs interval scales... eg..
https://www.questionpro.com/blog/ratio- ... val-scale/

Hey Frank
Link is not opening

My head done hutting already yes
Juh

[eKeith]

Been seeing and hearing on radio a lot of people both locally and internationally posting about the past decade and looking forward to the next one. However not to be the fly in the ointment this current decade ends on Dec 31st 2020.

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/new-deca ... 021-100900

I am sure some of you all here would think differently

Sorry but this is nonsense. Consider the following:

When is the first second of a hundred meter sprint? Do you start counting after 1000 milliseconds have passed? No. During the time from the starting gun through 1, 2, 3...100 ms... etc. to 1000 ms, you are within the first second of the race. When 1000ms have elapsed then you have completed the first second and can count it. You have now started the 2nd second of the race.

Therefore, similarly, the first year of a decade starts at the zeroth (starting gun) year. In this instance, it will start immediately after midnight December 31, 2019.

[sMASH]

screw op, its y3k!!!!

[Dizzy28]

Take it up with Pope Gregory and the whole Western World that adopted year 1 as the first year AD

Been seeing and hearing on radio a lot of people both locally and internationally posting about the past decade and looking forward to the next one. However not to be the fly in the ointment this current decade ends on Dec 31st 2020.

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/new-deca ... 021-100900

I am sure some of you all here would think differently

Sorry but this is nonsense. Consider the following:

When is the first second of a hundred meter sprint? Do you start counting after 1000 milliseconds have passed? No. During the time from the starting gun through 1, 2, 3...100 ms... etc. to 1000 ms, you are within the first second of the race. When 1000ms have elapsed then you have completed the first second and can count it. You have now started the 2nd second of the race.

Therefore, similarly, the first year of a decade starts at the zeroth (starting gun) year. In this instance, it will start immediately after midnight December 31, 2019.

[VexXx Dogg]

Well according to Kurzgesagt, we'll be in the year 12020.