dphoadley opened this issue on Jan 01, 2010 · 64 posts
WandW posted Fri, 01 January 2010 at 9:06 AM
Quote - Why is now called a NEW decade, instead of the last year of the old one?
dph
Indeed. People understood this in 1901, if you look at newspapers of that time, which heralded the dawn of a new Century.
Back when I worked in a supervisory capacity, I used to ask what the first day of the 21century was as an interview question-you can gain interesting insights into how a person's mind works by asking them to justify their answer....
Happy New Year!
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