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Post by everso on Nov 19, 2010 18:30:07 GMT
Have we reached the end of the decade or was that 31st December 2009?
At what point does a decade begin? Did the 21st century begin on 1st January 2000 or 2001?
I ask this because the question was raised on Gardener's Question Time this afternoon - I was listening on my way home along the A12.
I feel confused.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2010 19:12:22 GMT
Have we reached the end of the decade or was that 31st December 2009? At what point does a decade begin? Did the 21st century begin on 1st January 2000 or 2001? I ask this because the question was raised on Gardener's Question Time this afternoon - I was listening on my way home along the A12. I feel confused. i believe this will be the end of the decade, assuming that the calendar started from 0. of course i werent there at the time ( i was busy with other stuff|) but if it started with 0, as it shouldve done, then this new years eve should be the end of the decade.
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Post by everso on Nov 19, 2010 19:20:49 GMT
Start of year 0 to end of year 0 Start of year 1 to end of year 1 Start of year 2 to end of year 2 Start of year 3 to end of year 3 Start of year 4 to end of year 4 Start of year 5 to end of year 5 Start of year 6 to end of year 6 Start of year 7 to end of year 7 Start of year 8 to end of year 8 Start of year 9 to end of year 9
Equals 10 years = 1 decade
If we say that the year 2000 was the start of the 21st century then the beginning of year 10 was the start of the next decade.
Wasn't it?
We need Rob to argue this, along with some tables and graphs.
Either that, or Trubbs might be able to help with a trifle recipe.
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Post by trubble on Nov 19, 2010 19:26:51 GMT
That's a nice question but what does it have to do with gardening? We are already into our second decade. This is the start of the 'tens', soon to be renamed 'teens'. There's no jelly needed in trifle but as long as you have custard, jam and stale cake, what's a wobble between friends.
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Post by everso on Nov 19, 2010 19:36:20 GMT
That's a nice question but what does it have to do with gardening? We are already into our second decade. This is the start of the 'tens', soon to be renamed 'teens'. There's no jelly needed in trifle but as long as you have custard, jam and stale cake, what's a wobble between friends. Ah, now. I think someone in the audience was asking something like what innovations or something do you think there might be in the next decade, or something. I didn't listen much because the chap who hosts the show (can't remember his name) started bleating about people who might write up to insist that last year was the end of the decade, and I immediately thought "OOooo, that'll be a nice topic for Stub Crouch - and it'll get everyone het up and argumentative and Rob will appear suddenly and start insisting that the end of the decade could be in five years time etc. etc. (you know what he's like)."
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Post by Weyland on Nov 19, 2010 21:00:39 GMT
i believe this will be the end of the decade, assuming that the calendar started from 0. of course i werent there at the time ( i was busy with other stuff|) but if it started with 0, as it shouldve done, then this new years eve should be the end of the decade. The first year of the third millennium was 2001. 2001 to 2010 inclusive -- ten years. The decade ends next month.
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Post by bonbonlarue on Nov 19, 2010 21:13:41 GMT
Shit...ANOTHER decade???
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Post by jean on Nov 19, 2010 22:24:38 GMT
A decade is ANY sequence of ten years, so when it starts doesn't matter, so long as it's ten years before it ends.
The problem with millennia is that the first one began with a specific event (the birth of Christ).
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Post by everso on Nov 19, 2010 22:47:23 GMT
A decade is ANY sequence of ten years, so when it starts doesn't matter, so long as it's ten years before it ends. The problem with millennia is that the first one began with a specific event (the birth of Christ). In which case, the year 2000 was the start of the 21st century?
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Post by Weyland on Nov 19, 2010 22:50:31 GMT
A decade is ANY sequence of ten years, so when it starts doesn't matter, so long as it's ten years before it ends. I suppose so, but nevertheless the first decade of the third millennium finishes next month. It had to begin somewhere, and nobody knows when (or if) Christ was born in any case. So it began retrospectively and arbitrarily all but 2010 years ago. Serendipitously, I met a Dutch biker yesterday who told me that he belongs to an international group which has meetings all over Europe, including Wales. I expressed an interest, but he said I'd have to be a Christian. I said I was born a Catholic, and he said nobody could be born a Catholic, but must embrace it. I suppose he meant must be born again. I said he must know what I meant, and he agreed. The conversation got lighter after that. His group is called something like The Riders of God. He told me they'd been invited to a biker's funeral in Dundee, by another group called The Slaves of Satan. I promise I am not making any of this up. Which all just oes to show that next month will see the end of the first decade of the third millennium. And not a moment too soon.
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