Lazy on the 1st and 2nd, but yesterday got out in the cold and had some great riding. After a warm up around a snowy Cwmcarn, headed up to the Brecons to ride the Gap loop. Started at the south end of the gap, rode over, then due to failing light (and that I couldn't be bothered to ride a load of boring lanes and paths), I turned round and rode back the other way.
Loads of snow and sunshine. Great start to the year!
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First year of new decade is 2011, not 2010.......
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Shhhhh!
So 2000 was in the 90s?
Real jealous of that snow 🙁 it looks ace!
Ummmm... actually... are you sure?
Start or 2000 to end of 2009 is 10 years, so that would be the first decade for the second millennium. Or did the new millennium not start until 1st Jan 2001?
So 2000 was in the 90s?
If you want to put it that way, then yes it was. 🙂
I shall explain:
If you measure time from a given starting point (zero!) then zero to 1 is a period one year, yes?
So we call it year 1, but it's not a whole year until you finish it, is it? With me so far?
So, 0 to end of year 1 = Year one
1 - 2 = Year two
Etc
Until 8 - 9 = Year 9
and 9 - end of year 10 = Year 10.
So with a decade being a period of 10 years, it does not finish until the 10th year has fully elapsed. Clearer now? 🙂
So now you can see that at 12.00 midnight on 1999, we didn't celebrate the start of a new milennium, (That actually came a year later) We celebrated the ticking over of a nice neat digit, no more, no less. 2000 years had not elapsed until the very END of the year 2000! 🙂
SO it follows this decade has not elapsed until the end of this year.
I don't really care myself, but that's the truth of the matter. 🙂
Mine was yesterday.... Brrrrrrr
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I now understand... It's all because years started in 1 AD not 0 AD, so "technically", yes, it's not the next decade yet, and "technically", yes, everyone was a year early for there millennium celebrations!
"technically", yes, everyone was a year early for there millennium celebrations!
Yup that's it. I don't give a hoot really, but that's how it works. 🙂
wait a minute, you did ride from CwmCarn to the gap? It does look far on the map, or did you take your car between the two places?
No I drove! 😀
Did Cwmcarn early with a mate, but he had to get back home. After I'd dropped him off, and I was warm again in the car, the thought of more snow in the sunshine was too appealing, so I whizzed up in the car.
Did Cwmcarn early with a mate, but he had to get back home. After I'd dropped him off, and I was warm again in the car, the thought of more snow in the sunshine was too appealing, so I whizzed up in the car.
I hate you so much right now
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SO it follows this decade has not elapsed until the end of this year.I don't really care myself, but that's the truth of the matter.
I so wanted to say I don't care and instead post a nice snowy pic with my bike in it, but sadly the red rag was waved 😀
Our calendar is based on Christ's birth if I'm not very much mistaken. The beginning of 1AD is 1 year [u]after [/u]the birth of Christ and not the first year of his life, so PeterPoddy your argument falls at the first hurdle. When we began 2000AD 2000 years most definitely had passed since Christ's birth and hence we entered the next millenia based on this calendar.
Anyway, here's the snowy pic...
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Sorry Stilltortoise, Peter is correct.
[b]There was no year Zero[/b].
The calendar goes, start of time...., IV BC, III BC, II BC, I BC, I AD, II AD, III AD,... MMX AD.
Both the Julian and Gregorian calendars where based on Roman numerals.
Otherwise we would only be in the 20th Century as if follows that the
1st 100 years (0-99) would have been the 0 Century.
Working 1st & 2nd so did not get out till this morning.-9 @ 9am.....
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Back to the shop for coffee and bacon butties.....
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