…the naughts. It was an awful decade, in many ways.
And yes, I know that the first decade of the millennium isn’t over until a year from now, but the naughts ended tonight.
[Update a few minutes later]
Happy new year! I’d like to say that it can’t be worse than the past one, but I’ve lived long enough, and read enough history, to know better.
“but the naughts ended tonight.”
I think they have one more year. But IANAE. 😉
Astronomers use a calendar withh a Year Zero (AKA 1 BC).
The decade’s over.
The quibble over centuries derives from the fact they’re numbered, which means there was a First Century, which had a First Year, which was not 1 B.C. If we didn’t bother numbering centuries there’d be nothing to argue about.
As far as I know we don’t number decades.
there are 89 more years of the aughts.
Long live the aughts. It is now Aught 10, Long Live the Aughts.
And a decade doesn’t require a fixed point. any period of 10 years is a decade, so If you CHOOSE to start counting in 2000, then a decade has passed.