All this pedantism about century start dates, and everyone missed they could have called her a millennium baby but went for century instead.
Plot twist: The year 2000 Chinese New Year was actually on February 5th, a year of the dragon.
Plot twist: Centuries end in “0”, they don’t start in “0”.
The 21st Century started 1/1/2001.
Fuck sake, I thought we’d left this argument back in 99.
We’re still gonna party.
Mathematics and languages have different rules.
In languages it is possible for one century to be a yewa shorter than all the others. Other centuries begin on a year divisible by hundred, but centuries 1–99 and -1–-99 don’t. They are both missing a year, and outside mathematics that’s just fine.
If almost all native speakers of a language say that a century begins in a year divisible by hundred then that’s how it goes in that language.
Correct.
The 1st century started at 1 A.D. and included 100. 2nd century started 101 to 200. Etc etc. If you change the 21st century to be 2000. You would to shift everything down. Eventually making the 1st century 99 years. Or creating a year 0 or using 1BC.
This is why the years in the “20th Century” started with “19”. 20 is the end, not the start.
I thought it was the 20th century because if you count centuries starting at 1-99 CE, 1900-1999 is the twentieth one
One to 99 is not a century. :)
I don’t feel like this is correct.
Haha, touché salesman 👍
That’s not a good sign
So actually a quarter-century baby.
Wtf a deadly heart attack at age 25??
We can go at any time.
Delay nothing
Not sure he is missing out on much… Another 50 years of working to stay alive…
Maybe he moved on to a better place.
One year too early for the title? The 21st century started on 2001.
There’s a “strict” way and then there’s a “common perception and practice” way. You’re thinking of the strict way.
But yeah, sure. I guess it’s due to the fact that we don’t have a year zero, really, which is counterintuitive for us in the modern era, I suppose. At least for me.
How so? The first century surely started with year 0, the first year. Just like a person is zero years old during its first year. And years 0-99 make up the first century. Then the second century starts at 100-199, and so on. 🤷♂️
there is no year 0 we started at 1.
There is no year 1 in our current calendar system either. The Gregorian Calendar begins in 1582. The Julian Calendar includes year 1, but changed in year 8, so 0001-01-01 is a slightly different day in the Gregorian Calendar, the Julian Calendar, and the old Julian Calendar. 2000 years after Julian Calendar 0001-01-01 is late December 2000.
This has less meaning in China because China used its own calendar until 1911. People living in China 2000 years before 2001-01-01 would not have called it year 1.
Babies don’t start at 1.
In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken but it irrelevant to when the millennium starts anyway
In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken
Huh, that’s really interesting ☺️ kinda cute ngl
You should have told that to those guys 2025 years ago.
Who is “we”?
mankind
Looked it up now, you’re correct.
Although there are instances of year zero, like with astronomical years.
Kthxbai
how is this news?
