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Beany
05/20/24 8:03:54 AM
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I always thought it was obviously the beginning of the 21st but apparently people dispute which it is.

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PMarth2002
05/20/24 9:15:52 AM
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There's no year 0, so centuries go from 1-100

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CassandraCroft
05/20/24 9:39:16 AM
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The people that voted 21st Century are so fucking wrong it is unbelievable.

In the C.E (Common Era)/BCE (Before Common Era) or if you prefer A.D (Anno Domini)/B.C (Before Christ) notation used by The Gregorian Calander there is no year zero. 1 BCE/1BC was followed by 1AD/CE.

Meaning that a hundred years is from 1 - 101.

Meaning that the 21st Cenutry and the Third Millennium started in 2001CE.AD.

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Thermador446
05/20/24 9:45:12 AM
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Isn't it always 1 Century ahead?
so 19th century

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Beany
05/20/24 10:00:58 AM
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PMarth2002 posted...
There's no year 0, so centuries go from 1-100

CassandraCroft posted...
The people that voted 21st Century are so fucking wrong it is unbelievable.

In the C.E (Common Era)/BCE (Before Common Era) or if you prefer A.D (Anno Domini)/B.C (Before Christ) notation used by The Gregorian Calander there is no year zero. 1 BCE/1BC was followed by 1AD/CE.

Meaning that a hundred years is from 1 - 101.

Meaning that the 21st Cenutry and the Third Millennium started in 2001CE.AD.

Dang good point

Thermador446 posted...
Isn't it always 1 Century ahead?
so 19th century

lol crap my poll is terrible

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UnsteadyOwl
05/20/24 3:45:38 PM
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CassandraCroft posted...
The people that voted 21st Century are so fucking wrong it is unbelievable.

In the C.E (Common Era)/BCE (Before Common Era) or if you prefer A.D (Anno Domini)/B.C (Before Christ) notation used by The Gregorian Calander there is no year zero. 1 BCE/1BC was followed by 1AD/CE.

Meaning that a hundred years is from 1 - 101.

Meaning that the 21st Cenutry and the Third Millennium started in 2001CE.AD.
That means decades start on the year ending in 1 instead of ending in 0, right? Since the first decade was years 1-10, second was 11-20, etc.

That would mean the year 2000 was still part of the 90's since that decade began in 1991, with 1990 being the last year of the 80's.

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tankboy
05/20/24 3:59:29 PM
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PMarth2002 posted...
There's no year 0, so centuries go from 1-100
That's not a super strong argument because dates and times already have discontinuities and exceptions. Having two centuries that are not 100 years is no worse than leap years/seconds or daylight savings transitions.
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