LWN's 2020 vision

Posted Jan 2, 2020 3:40 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: LWN's 2020 vision by halla
Parent article: LWN's 2020 vision

Every year, indeed every day and every second, marks the beginning of a new ten year span, aka "decade".

The problem most of us have with "the 21st century began in 2000" is that enumeration bit. If someone just said "200 is a new century", I wouldn't blink an eye. But the first century began in 1, so the 21st century has to begin 2000 years later, 2001.

It's very simple.

LWN's 2020 vision

Posted Jan 2, 2020 13:14 UTC (Thu) by bpeebles (subscriber, #70111) [Link]

It feels simpler to me to just accept that the calendar was wrong in the beginning and the first century/millennium were missing a year. And so they lasted 99/999 years respectively. Seems similar to the calendar skipping 11 days in the 1750s.

So now century and millenniums begin on the 0 and not the 1.