Poll: Are we in a new decade now?

[Nugma]

So a friend of mine asked me this question. Are we in a new decade or does it start in 2011?
Since I was unable to answer the question, I have decided to ask my fellow escapists.

 

[dodo1331]

Since I am the only vote so far, I am automatically correct when I say it is a new decade.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[madcap2112]

I don't care. I'm so anxious to leave this decade behind, I'm fine considering 2010 to start anew.

 

[Jim Grim]

Dunno. I'm just gonna say we are in order to try and attach some significance to today.

 

[CrashBang]

The 2000s decade started with 00 so the 2010s decaded starts with 10, easy peasy

 

[Omikron009]

I picked not until next year, because it's still 2009 in Vancouver.

 

[benoitowns]

Yes... or no if you think about it...

I mean, a decade is 10 years, and the first year was year 1, therefor the first decade would end at year 11, and so forth...

So no.

Unfortunately the first year wasn't year one.

 

[Knight Templar]

Depends on how you think about it, if you wish to be techinal than it can go either way but with favor to 2011 being the next decade.
If you wish to think of it culturally and historically then yes we are in a new decade, this is how I view it.

 

[Dark Knifer]

It's not important. It's just a bunch of numbers after all...

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[LockeDown]

It's still 2009 here in good ol' North Carolina, so....No.

 

[LockeDown]

A decade is ten years.

The year counter (not including BC) starts at zero. Zero to nine is ten years; 2000 to 2009 is ten years, 2010 is a new decade.

By that logic, however, we technically enter a new decade every year. 2000 to 2009 is a decade, and so is 2001 to 2010, and 2002 to 2011.

It's not so simple as "a decade is ten years". It has more to do with when the calendar begins, so we know which 10 years we're referring to.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[LockeDown]

Well, I'm saying that 2010 is the multiple of ten in this area. Every ten years since year zero is a decade (unless the first year was counted as one)

But, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero , the Gregorian calendar that we use today starts ad A.D. 1, so the new decade won't begin until 2011.

 

[FinalHeart95]

I'm just going to consider it a new decade, because it's a lot easier to keep track of decades by the number in the tens place rather than thinking out 2001-2010, 2011-2020, etc.

 

[Kahvimies]

Well, I'm saying that 2010 is the multiple of ten in this area. Every ten years since year zero is a decade (unless the first year was counted as one)

But, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero , the Gregorian calendar that we use today starts ad A.D. 1, so the new decade won't begin until 2011.

But this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_decades and at least most of the links on it tend to disagree on that, and more interestingly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0s