Strictly speaking the next decade does not begin until a year from now - on 01 January 2011 as there was no year zero! In any case, don't we always count from one to ten and not from zero to nine?
We had this very same discussion ten years ago as to exactly when the present millennium was to commence, let alone the new decade.
I think we all shoud be grateful for being around to experience a very rare event in chronological time history...the dawning of the Third Millennium. I reckon I won't have much stamina for wild celebrations at the age of one thousand and seventeen years on 01 Jan 3000....or one thousand and eighteen years on 01 Jan 3001.
Anyway, be that as it may - referring to the new decade, whenever it begins, as the "Twenty Teens" has been ruled out in the UK as the teen years do not actually begin for another three years yet....what a complicated pig's dinner this all is.
The general consensus of opinion in the UK now is that it should be called the "Twenty Tens", as it will be followed by the "Twenty Twenties" and then the "Twenty Thirties" and so on....is that not a logical conclusion or what?
Twelve thirty hours GMT/UTC on Saturday the second of January twenty ten...over and out.
PS: The Antimoon clock is still out of sync!
We had this very same discussion ten years ago as to exactly when the present millennium was to commence, let alone the new decade.
I think we all shoud be grateful for being around to experience a very rare event in chronological time history...the dawning of the Third Millennium. I reckon I won't have much stamina for wild celebrations at the age of one thousand and seventeen years on 01 Jan 3000....or one thousand and eighteen years on 01 Jan 3001.
Anyway, be that as it may - referring to the new decade, whenever it begins, as the "Twenty Teens" has been ruled out in the UK as the teen years do not actually begin for another three years yet....what a complicated pig's dinner this all is.
The general consensus of opinion in the UK now is that it should be called the "Twenty Tens", as it will be followed by the "Twenty Twenties" and then the "Twenty Thirties" and so on....is that not a logical conclusion or what?
Twelve thirty hours GMT/UTC on Saturday the second of January twenty ten...over and out.
PS: The Antimoon clock is still out of sync!