No Wonder This World's So Screwed Up!!!

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

In the binary times in which we live, it might not surprise anyone that people can't even agree on when one period of time ends and another begins. The question many are now asking is: When we ring in the new year and welcome 2020, should we also celebrate a new decade?
Confusion over the answer is similar to the uncertainty that hung over watershed events from the millennium to the 2009-2010 changeover.
As Jan. 1, 2020, approaches, it turns out there is a Team Zero and a Team 1 – those who believe the new decade will begin after midnight on the upcoming New Year's Eve and those who believe the burgeoning celebrations of a new decade (and all the "last decade" retrospectives) are in fact a year early.

People Can't Even Agree On When The Decade Ends

In these binary times, it might not surprise anyone that people can't even agree on when one period of time ends and another begins.

www.npr.org

 

[snoopy7548]

This is so freaking stupid. The new decade begins on Jan 1, 2021, just like the new millennium began on 2001, not 2000.

 

[IronWing]

A new decade begins every day and every second of every day. When one decides to mark it is up to individual choice.

 

[zinfamous]

This is so freaking stupid. The new decade begins on Jan 1, 2021, just like the new millennium began on 2001, not 2000.

every new decade begins whenever you decide which window of ten years you want to define as a decade. Currently, I'm in the middle of a decade--not the beginning or the end of one.

 

[nakedfrog]

Whew, for a second there I was worried we'd run out of pointless things to argue about!

 

[dave_the_nerd]

This is so freaking stupid. The new decade begins on Jan 1, 2021, just like the new millennium began on 2001, not 2000.

While this is absolutely correct, I think some of the confusion stems from how we talk about decades - the sixties, the nineties, the twenties, are obviously 1060-1069, 1790-1799, and 1920-1929. Language is wrong, but it also frames our thinking. Which is also WRONG.

Kinda like how some calendars show the week as Monday through Sunday and others show it Sunday through Saturday, and people have killed each other over which day is the "seventh" vis a vis the Sabbath.