Re: Merry/Happy Holidays
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 6:05 pm
Both are correct. A "decade" is any period of ten years.
Most people think of a calendar decade in terms of numbers - we say the aughts, the tens, the twenties, etc. If you want to be technical, though, since the calendar began with the year "1", not the year "0", a calendar decade runs from 1-0, but who really thinks about it in those terms?
Someone might ask you, "what was your favorite film of the 1980s?" Few would phrase the question as "what was you favorite film of the 8th decade of the 20th Century?"
Remember the concerns at the commonly perceived turn of the last millennium when people thought planes would fall out of the skies because their computers clocks ended with 12/31/1999? No one raised similar concerns at the technical end of the millennium on December 31, 2000.
Most people think of a calendar decade in terms of numbers - we say the aughts, the tens, the twenties, etc. If you want to be technical, though, since the calendar began with the year "1", not the year "0", a calendar decade runs from 1-0, but who really thinks about it in those terms?
Someone might ask you, "what was your favorite film of the 1980s?" Few would phrase the question as "what was you favorite film of the 8th decade of the 20th Century?"
Remember the concerns at the commonly perceived turn of the last millennium when people thought planes would fall out of the skies because their computers clocks ended with 12/31/1999? No one raised similar concerns at the technical end of the millennium on December 31, 2000.
I'm just saying this because remember right before Jan. 1, 2010 I was part of a discussion here about when the next decade would start; and, Erik, who I think has hardly posted since then, wrote that that was becoming the most boring conversation in the history of this board.