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Post by joymarty on Jan 22, 2020 21:44:27 GMT -5
It matters not to me, I go with the system of changing clocks, calendars etc as the system tells us to. Outta my control. I'd like not to change the times as we do, but I'm not in charge.
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Post by smitty45 on Jan 23, 2020 8:21:42 GMT -5
Cool. that means I won't turn 53 until December 2021 WOOT!!! yeah, I wish.
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Post by QuickSilver on Jan 23, 2020 9:20:59 GMT -5
Use some reasoning people.... The year you were born was your FIRST year of life.. You were not yet one year old until you reached your first birthday. On your first birthday you started your SECOND year. Therefore 2020 is the first year of this decade. 2021 will be the second year.
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Post by QuickSilver on Jan 23, 2020 14:38:34 GMT -5
2021.......Americans have such poor math skills!!! No... It's not a matter of math skill but of common sense... As I said.. the day you are born you begin your first year of life and also your first decade.. so actually you are zero years old... On your first birthday, you become one year old, BUT you have just started your second year of life... On your second birthday you are starting your third year of life.. and on and on until you reach your tenth birthday. You will then be ten years old and you will be starting your eleventh year of life or your SECOND decade. Therefore, the year 2020 is the first year of a new decade... and on January 1st 2021 we will begin the SECOND year of the new decade.
Maybe we have poor math skills... but some of us are pretty good at reasoning.
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Post by notmydad on Jan 23, 2020 20:13:30 GMT -5
The calendar started at year 1, so the first decade didn't end until 10 full years were complete and the second decade started at year 11. Therefore, decades start in years ending in 1 and end in years ending in 0. We are still in the decade of the 2010's until 1/1/2021.
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Post by QuickSilver on Jan 24, 2020 9:10:56 GMT -5
The calendar started at year 1, so the first decade didn't end until 10 full years were complete and the second decade started at year 11. Therefore, decades start in years ending in 1 and end in years ending in 0. We are still in the decade of the 2010's until 1/1/2021. That argument only works for Centuries or Millenniums.... It does not work for Decades. Hence... the 50's he 60's the 70's the 80's and so on...
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Post by notmydad on Jan 24, 2020 10:16:32 GMT -5
The calendar started at year 1, so the first decade didn't end until 10 full years were complete and the second decade started at year 11. Therefore, decades start in years ending in 1 and end in years ending in 0. We are still in the decade of the 2010's until 1/1/2021. That argument only works for Centuries or Millenniums.... It does not work for Decades. Hence... the 50's he 60's the 70's the 80's and so on... That would mean the first decade was only nine years. I'm a bit obsessive compulsive and can't accept a short decade. To me, ten years makes a decade. It actually bothered me that 2000 was celebrated as the new millennium, when it was, in reality, the last year of the 20th century. To each his/her own.😉
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