A new decade soon and no one seems to care.

[Gunk]

2020 and a new decade very soon, there seems to very little fuss about it, is because since the Millennium no one knows what to actually call the decades?

Back when I was a kid it was a big deal when the 70’s became the 80’s, now it seems to have slipped beneath the radar.

 

[roadrash]

I guess the decades will be called what they have always been called...20's 30's 40's etc. maybe it just seemed to be big deal when younger , I personally don't see it as a big thing, after all what actually changes , apart from the date obviously

 

[Stompier]

Back when I was a kid it was a big deal when the 70’s became the 80’s, now it seems to have slipped beneath the radar

I've highlighted the important bit

 

[colly]

When you have seen one new decade...............................


(or in my case far more than I care to remember)

 

[Drago]

No one cares because the new decade doesn't begin until 2021. There was no year zero so 2020 is the 10th year of this decade.

 

[robjh]

No one cares because the new decade doesn't begin until 2021. There was no year zero so 2020 is the 10th year of this decade.

Yebbut, yebbut, yebbut, no-one really thinks that (say) 1980 was in the 70s. And I bet the sticklers' Millennium party was a lonely affair compared to the ones the rest of us went to a year earlier.

 

[sleuthey]

Funny enough I was having brunch today with 2 maths teachers and a pensions analyst and one of them seemed to think the decade does not end until the end of 2020 (because it's the end of the 10th year). I initially thought it made sense but I now think it's a load of bollocks as the world celebrated the millennium on 31 Dec 1999 not 31 Dec 2000. IE. The decade runs from 0-9 not 1-10

Edit - I wrote this post same time as @Drago wrote his. The calm before the storm. 😯🌊

 

[Gunk]

No one cares because the new decade doesn't begin until 2021. There was no year zero so 2020 is the 10th year of this decade.

Are you sure? The ‘90’s started in 1990 not 1991.

 

[Drago]

The world celebrated wrong, and at the time there was a moderately vocal "real millenium" campaign which went largely ignored. The year 2000 was just that, the 2000th year AD, the thousandth and final year of the second millennium.

The very first decade started with year 1, not year zero, and all subsequent decades followed suit. Ergo, the next decade also begins with a 1, in this case 2021.

All the business with the namig of time periods, eg, "nineties" is nothing more than a naming convention for years with xx9x, a cardinal decade, a construct invented by the print media in the 1920's, and is different from and separate to the actual temporal decade.

 

[Gunk]

I think you’re on your own there Drago

 

[Drago]

I think you’re on your own there Drago

I don't think it's important really, but mathematically I am quite correct. Even Tony B.Liar conceded it at the time.

Chuck this into Google and see for yourself...

"when did the millennium really begin?"

 

[newfhouse]

I now think it's a load of bollocks as the world celebrated the millennium on 31 Dec 1999

As I’m sure @Drago will agree, majority opinion is often wrong

 

[Chromatic]

I think you’re on your own there Drago

I'm with @Drago on this.

 

[Racing roadkill]

No one cares anymore. I hope they call the next decade the roaring 2020s, but the brain dead insta generation probably neither know nor care. Good luck to them.

 

[snorri]

The world celebrated wrong,

Take note folks, Drago has found the mistake in the internet.