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Posted January 01, 2020
Happy New Year to GOG staff and the whole community!
Posted January 01, 2020
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jsidhu762: Hello!

Happy New Year everyone! It's not only the start of a new year, but also a new decade. Are there any resolutions you would like to share? I can't really think of a new one this year. Come to think of it, I couldn't come up with one last year. I'll make one up right now: This year I will be more diligent.

I'll just leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblt2EtFfC4
Decade starts on January 1, 2021.


Happy New Year, all. Still 4:45 to go here, but happy New Year to everyone already experiencing it.
Post edited January 01, 2020 by paladin181
Posted January 01, 2020
Happy new year all

"Decade starts on January 1, 2021" lol

I suppose when you were born, your age was 1
Posted January 01, 2020
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Cavenagh: Happy new year all

"Decade starts on January 1, 2021" lol

I suppose when you were born, your age was 1
No, but the calendar we use started on year 1, not year 0. A person born on Jan 1, 1980 would turn 1 on Jan 1, 1981. At the culmination of his 10th year he would turn 10, on Jan 1, 1990. However, there was no year 0, so a person born on Jan 1, 0001, would turn 1 at the culmination of their first year, on Jan 1, 0002. On Jan 1, 0010, they would turn 9. So their decade would not turn over until 0011. Where did we lose a year that subsequent decades would start on the 0 instead of the 1?

EDIT: Or in simpler terms, the first year is 1. 1 + 10 is 11, not 10. 11 + 10 is 21, not 20.
Post edited January 01, 2020 by paladin181
Posted January 01, 2020
Happy New Year!

Hoping for the best in 2020 but if we are realistic, it'll take a lot of work.
Posted January 01, 2020
Happy new years and new decade.
Posted January 01, 2020
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Cavenagh: Happy new year all

"Decade starts on January 1, 2021" lol

I suppose when you were born, your age was 1
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paladin181: No, but the calendar we use started on year 1, not year 0. A person born on Jan 1, 1980 would turn 1 on Jan 1, 1981. At the culmination of his 10th year he would turn 10, on Jan 1, 1990. However, there was no year 0, so a person born on Jan 1, 0001, would turn 1 at the culmination of their first year, on Jan 1, 0002. On Jan 1, 0010, they would turn 9. So their decade would not turn over until 0011. Where did we lose a year that subsequent decades would start on the 0 instead of the 1?

EDIT: Or in simpler terms, the first year is 1. 1 + 10 is 11, not 10. 11 + 10 is 21, not 20.
It's the beginning of the 20s, which will last from 2020 to 2029 inclusively which does count as a decade and is what most peoples mean.

The 203rd decade will begin next year but few peoples count years that way.

I do agree that the 21st century started in 2001 because peoples do count years in centuries but it is still a little bit pedantic to bring it up in most discussions.
Posted January 01, 2020
Hey paladin181

I acidently reported your post as spam

I've been away for a while, I was just trying to downvote your comment, that the decade starts on 2021 [I thought the '-' was downvote button.

Sorry

Great start to the decade :(
Post edited January 01, 2020 by Cavenagh
Posted January 01, 2020
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paladin181: No, but the calendar we use started on year 1, not year 0. A person born on Jan 1, 1980 would turn 1 on Jan 1, 1981. At the culmination of his 10th year he would turn 10, on Jan 1, 1990. However, there was no year 0, so a person born on Jan 1, 0001, would turn 1 at the culmination of their first year, on Jan 1, 0002. On Jan 1, 0010, they would turn 9. So their decade would not turn over until 0011. Where did we lose a year that subsequent decades would start on the 0 instead of the 1?

EDIT: Or in simpler terms, the first year is 1. 1 + 10 is 11, not 10. 11 + 10 is 21, not 20.
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justanoldgamer: It's the beginning of the 20s, which will last from 2020 to 2029 inclusively which does count as a decade and is what most peoples mean.

The 203rd decade will begin next year but few peoples count years that way.

I do agree that the 21st century started in 2001 because peoples do count years in centuries but it is still a little bit pedantic to bring it up in most discussions.
Being born in 1980, and told it was the last year of the 70's has colored my view on this. Sorry, I just don't subscribe to the ridiculous notion that decades start on a zero, as that means people can't math properly. I have faith that most of humanity is not that stupid.
Posted January 01, 2020
We're in the 2020 decade, 2020 years have passed, we're now within the 2030th decade.

on the 1st jan 2021, one year of this decade will have passed [the decade will be 1yo old]
Post edited January 01, 2020 by Cavenagh
Posted January 01, 2020
Happy New Year!


Wtf... 2020... that sounds like flying cars, megacorps (ok we have that already), cyborgs (getting there)... and only five years to Soylent Green *shudder*.
Posted January 01, 2020
Happy New Year to you all. Hope 2020 is a giid year fior you.
Posted January 01, 2020
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Cavenagh: We're in the 2020 decade, 2020 years have passed, we're now within the 2020th decade.

on the 1st jan 2021, one year of this decade will have passed.
EDIT: I'm done discussing the point here. Happy New year!
Post edited January 01, 2020 by paladin181
Posted January 01, 2020
Happy new year all!
Posted January 01, 2020
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. :-)
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