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Originally Posted by Dr Terry
I think you've answered your own question & no, I haven't contradicted myself.
The 20s are 2020 to 2029, but this is not a decade as such, it is just 10 years starting at 2020.
I don't believe that you can say that 2030 is part of the 20s, when in fact it is the last year of the 3rd decade. This is what I was trying to illustrate.
See, this is the issue. You have to start somewhere like your age for example. You are born on day 1, you are 1 year of age after 12 months & 10 years old after full 10 years. So you are 10 years old during your 11th year, not during your 10th.
During your 19th year, just before your 20th birthday, you are not 20, you're still 19. You are 20 years at the time of your 20th birthday & also into your 21st year. But again you are not 21 until one year later, at your 21st birthday.
What these other guys are saying is that the 20th decade of this century is completed at the beginning of the 20th year, but just like your birthday you are not 20 until the end of the 20th year.
Dr Terry
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Ok, I think we're actually on the same page here.
I agree that technically this is the final year of the 2nd decade of this century, if we were to count from Christs birth, this is the final year of the 202nd decade, 2020 is also considered the first year of the 20s which is where the confusion comes in, history considers the decade of the 20s etc. to begin on 1/1/20 and finish on 31/12/29 which is why people have celebrated the new decades beginning.