Happy New Year!! :)

[drron]

BTW, fellow pedants

The first year AD (as defined, retrospectively IIRC, and I'm not going to get into Roman/Julian and Gregorian calendars! ) ended on 31 December 0001. Ten years later, the first decade ended on 31 December 0010. Keep going forward in blocks of 10 and the current decade will end on 31 December 2020 (again, happily ignoring the conversion from Roman/Julian to Gregorian calendars ) . We had this debate at the end of the last 'millennium' - the first thousand years ended on 31 December 2000, not 31 December 1999 but there was too much of a party to be had for anyone to really care.

But sure, most people prefer to recognise the end of a decade as 31 December on a '9' year. Decades (brackets of 10 years) of course can end on a '3' year, or any year. We can all have a bit of fun picking the nits. Imagine if @juddles called the thread 'Happy New Decade!!' #

# Would have meant no raspberries for him!

Then it would have been a real laugh-as long as it was started about 0400 Noosa time.

 

[Himeno]

The entire "decade debate" isn't a debate. It's people not understanding basic facts of how the calendar works.
Anyone claiming that "the" decade ended on Tuesday night is claiming that you are a decade old when you turn 9.

Every international time keeping agency agrees that "the" decade ends on 31 Dec 2020.

The period from 1 Jan 2010 to 31 Dec 2019 may be "a" decade as it is a collection of 10 somethings, but it is not "the" decade as they are attempting to use the term "the decade" to mean.

 

[p--and--t]

Congratulations *juddles - you have done "it" again. A mere few words from you to create a storm in a teacup.

 

[sjk]

The entire "decade debate" isn't a debate. It's people not understanding basic facts of how the calendar works.
Anyone claiming that "the" decade ended on Tuesday night is claiming that you are a decade old when you turn 9.

Or they could be people who know how to count very well, thank you, but who question whether there is any meaningful concept of ‘the decade’ and instead prefer to give weight to how things are used in real life. Like, say, ‘the 20s’.

This particular ‘gotcha’ seems even lamer than most.