Happy New Year!

[EStripus]

The year is off to a great start: it's sunny the first morning of 2010 and I have 4 more days until I have to be at work. 

[Sarras Volcae]

The decade isn't over until new years day 2011.  You still have another year to make it better.

decades are 10 years long, neko. 1980-'89, '90-'99, 2000-2009, 2010-2019.

the first decade of 2000 did suck pretty bad

[MadMandrith]

Neko is right. We still have until 2010 for the decade to be over.
EDIT: I mean 2011

[Xordan]

No, decades start on a 0 and end on a 9

[Sarras Volcae]

it is 2010. neko said 2011

[neko kyouran]

No, decades start on a 0 and end on a 9

There was no year 0, the calender was created at the start of year 1.  There fore the first decade, being a ten year interval lasted from year 1 through year 10, making the first day of year 11, the start of the second decade.

Carry that forward in time to present day, the end of the decade is December 31, 2010 23:59:99.999

[Sarras Volcae]

neko, you can be all technical with how you view the years, but you're still wrong. a thing is defined by how most people see it, not by obsolete definitions no one knows about.

whoever skipped year 0 was a party pooper

[neko kyouran]

everyone where i live defines it as 2011.  therefore, by your logic, you must be wrong. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero#Third_millennium 

[Xordan]

everyone where i live defines it as 2011.  therefore, by your logic, you must be wrong. 

The mass media defines it as 2010, thus as with all things, if it's reported on TV it must be true!

[Sarras Volcae]

neko, first of all, that's wikipedia. second, some of the facts you're stating may be true, but that does not mean the decade ends at the start of 2011. that's elliptical logic. your argument is invalid.

[bloodedIrishman]

neko, first of all, that's wikipedia. second, some of the facts you're stating may be true, but that does not mean the decade ends at the start of 2011. that's elliptical logic. your argument is invalid.

If your using the calendar everyone else in the modern world uses neko is right on the ball.

Your argument is invalid.

For Timmothy: FAIL

[Sarras Volcae]

normally i wouldn't trust yahoo answers, but http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090329075054AA00pb1

random news story http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122109161

another one http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2009/12/what_will_we_call_the_new_deca.html

make sense now?

[neko kyouran]

make sense now?

yep, the world is full of uneducated sheep that listen to what everything they hear the media tells them and never actually sit down to question whether, just maybe, that the media is wrong.

once you can find proof that the calender system the majority of the world uses has a year 0 in it, then you will be able to say that the first decade went from 0-9, and the second started on year 10. until such time, the next decade, century, millennia, etc, all fall on a 1, and run through a 10, beginning anew on the next year ending in a 1.

and since you liked downplay wikipedia as being a credible source.

http://news.cnet.com/Study-Wikipedia-as-accurate-as-Britannica/2100-1038_3-5997332.html

[Dermathil]

Neko is right. In the gregorian calendar, year 1 immediately followed year -1.

[Xordan]

Apparently then, if most of the western world is considering a decade to be 0-9, we're no longer using the vanilla gregorian calendar.