Decade's End- Or Is It?

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Absolutely correct. Decade ends at the end of 2010.

If you were born on the 1st January 2000 you would be 10 years old today. That's a decade in my books. A decade is any 10 year block no matter when it starts.
All this millenium stuff is a new language the scribes like to use.

IMHO.

Fred.

Gday,
I thought a decade was a ten year perod?
If thats the case the end of the decade would be be 2013........
If it started at 2003......depending of course weather you started counting at the begining or end of the year?????? Im getting a headache!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers

unless you started counting at the start of 2000!

A decade = a full 10yr period .. 3,657 days [allowing for 2 leap yrs] problem is where to start counting , we have 5 BC and 5 AD , was that a 10 year period IE: a decade or was that an 11/12 year period ? was there a year zero ? 5BC- 4BC- 3BC- 2Bc- 1BC- 0BC or should that be 0AD- 1AD- 2AD- 3AD- 4AD- 5AD ?

This isn't doing Hairy's headache much good you blokes !!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

The Year 1AD would have started at the end of year 1BC.

e.g. Dec 31st 1BC followed by Jan 1st 1AD.

At that point the year 1 AD was 1 day old, until 365 days later, when it would have become Jan 1st 2 AD, at which point the year 2 AD was 1 day old.

When did leap years come into the equation?? Was 4AD the first leap year ??
And why is Feb 29th the catch up day?


Fred.

Decades run 0 - 9, 10-19,20-29 etc. 10 years in each = 1 decade. So we are at the end of one decade ('noughties') and the commencement of a new decade (teens, I guess ...).

Jack

This debate was had back at the change from 1999 to 2000. We celebrated the start of the new millenium then whether we liked it or not. Well the media, govt etc did anyway.

On that basis, it is now 10 years later, so I guess that's a decade.

If you disagree, you needed to get upset enough back in 1999 to get the millennium change postponed for a year.

My view - who cares? I survived the last decade, and plan on surviving the next - and the one after that too hopefully. That's all that matters to me.

Norm C

2010 is supposedly the 2010th year after the birth of Christ, according to our Gregorian derived calendar- thats how we measure years. The first decade after Christs supposed birth would end 10 years after his birth. The first year would be year 1. the second year 2 etc the tenth year 10, so the new decade would begin at the end of the tenth year. First day of the new decade would thus be Jan 1 2011

So decades as recorded by our calendar based on the supposed date of the birth of Christ end at the end of 2010, 2020 etc and one thousand years after the birth of Christ would end at the end of the thousandth year eg 2000 so the new millenium begins Jan 1 2001. I remeber as a child everyone saying the beginning of 2001 would be the significant milestone. By the time 2000 came around everyone had decided the even number ending in 000 was more significant.

It's true, there was no year zero. So end of 10AD was the end of the first decade, and end of 2000 was the end of the second millennium. But when talking about a decade as "sixties," it is correct to refer to Jan 1 1960- Dec 31 1969 as "The Sixties." The Sixties was not Jan 1 1961- Dec 31 1970. Just like a man in his 40s could be anywhere from 40th birthday to the day before he turns 50. Even though when he is 49, he is living his 50th year.

So, it is not the end of the 201st decade since the birth of Christ, but it is the beginning of a decade that would be called - whatever the name of this decade is going to be called... (It will be easier to name after 2020).