A New Decade, Or Is It?

[Baller]

This is my first CL thread, so if it is a bad thread I appologize

I have been meaning to post this for a few days but never really got to it, but now here it is:

I was watching Dick Clark's New Years Eve Special, which to me is getting worse and worse as the years go on. But they kept talking about how it is a new decade in the year 2010. But it doesn't really make sense?

When Jesus Christ died we officially went into A.D., hence starting a new calendar. Now this calendar didn't start with the year 0, it started with the year 1. Now my math may be bad, but I'm pretty sure if you count 10 years it goes, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 hence the decade doesn't end till it reaches the year 11. However, we are considering this a new decade.

So is it a new decade or not?

 

[One Punch Doug Crashin]

with the Lunar calendar its officially a new decade... people still using the Solar calendar still call it 5760

 

[hatehabsforever]

No, this is not the start of a new decade, 2010 is the final year of the current decade. The decade started on January 01, 2001 and will end on December 31, 2010, with the new decade then commencing on January 01, 2011.

This was discussed to death during the Y2K time and the beginning of the new decade/millenium. I thought it was universally agreed that because there is no year 0, the calendar begins on year 1, the start of the first decade of the current calendar. The first decade would end at the end of year 10, and so on and so on.

So the new decade/millenium began on Jan 01, 2001 (not 2000).

But come to think about, who really cares anyway? What difference does it make anyway?

 

[Mr. TM]

its no longer the 00s, its the 10s, that means its new.

 

[ABMorales787]

Some historical and biblical studies indicate that there was a 3 year lapse between the last year of the B.C. Era and year 1 A.C. Basically saying there are 3 years with no name.

 

[Viola Moonlight]

If there is indeed a year 0, then this is how it goes:

Year 0 is the first year
Year 1 is the second year

and so on and so forth, making year 9 the tenth year.


Consider TM's fact and I'm pretty sure that this is the new decade.

 

[hatehabsforever]

If there is indeed a year 0, then this is how it goes:

Year 0 is the first year
Year 1 is the second year

and so on and so forth, making year 9 the tenth year.


Consider TM's fact and I'm pretty sure that this is the new decade.

But that's just it, I personally don't believe there's a year 0. So year 1 is the first year, year 2 is the second year, etc., . So year 10 is the tenth year, the end of the first decade.

How can there be a year 0, this just wouldn't make any sense.

And why are we even discussing this nonsense, less than 24 hours before the return of Bret "the Hitman" Hart to the world of professional wrestling that is WWE, and the return of some Hogan guy to the other company.

 

[FromTheSouth]

It's been a decade since the last time the vast majority of the world celebrated the end of a decade. It's a new decade.

 

[ABMorales787]

What a coincidence. Its been a decade since WWE had any form of competition.

 

[TheOneBigWill]

My Government told me it was a new Decade, and they're ALWAYS right. </sarcasm>

 

[Tastycles]

You realise that the years didn't begin at year 0 or year 1 don't you? The years were called that in hindsight, and Jesus was almost certainly born in 4 BC. As it happens, there is no year 0 in the calandar, but that doesn't change anything. Things like decades, centuries and millennia are arbitary human constructs that appeared a hell of a lot later than the year zero, or even 525, when the Julian calendar was first used, meaning 10, 100 and 1000 years respectively. It's the end of a decade because it's ten years since we last celebrated that.

 

[Shadowmancer]

Actually there is a discrepancy it is either 4 or 6 BC for the date of Jesus' birth. At that point it stops being BC and becomes AD. And we count years in Decimal therefore 0 is the start and it goes 0 through 9. Its like Binary it goes 0 through 1, or even better Octal which goes 0 through 7. Or Hexidecimal which goes 0 through F.