End of the decade -or not?

Fiftyyearsandcounting

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And old chestnut...
It all goes bask to a monk called Dionysius Exiguus who, in 525, introduced the BC/AD system, initially in order to calculate Easter.
His calendar went straight from BC-1 to AD+1 there was never an AD-0. So, mathematically the first decade ran 10 years to end December 2010. AD1 AD2 AD3 AD5 AD5 AD6 AD7 AD8 AD9 AD10 =10 YEARS.
Therefore, I maintain the last century ended on December 31st 2000 and not December 1999. Of course a decade can be any 10-year period but if calculating from 1st January 2010, then we still have 12 months to go.
 
It technically isn't the end of the decade by the traditional sense, but if you count decades by the second to the last number on the calendar then you'd be perfectly within your rights to count this as the end of the decade.

It's arbitrary.
 

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