How relevant is it that today marks a new decade?

Time is arbitrary. Calendars just make it more practical to manage.

Personally I kind of view things like your cat does. Sun’s up Suns down.

I guess having an anchor in time like that could have befits for some.

I am finding the whole New Year’s season this year and the fact of it being a new decade very insignificant personally. Perhaps it is a reflection of my frustration and near despair over the state of the world and the slowness of change. Although I do see and mark personal changes, I don’t find the changing calendar to have any relevance to these personal markers.

@tekn0lust I guess that is the big paradoxical joke on us. We need time to get everyone on the same page or in synch, to say. As soon as we started measuring time not only had we become a slave to it but started to feel we are losing it and or squandering it. Ha ha ha what a joke we played on ourselves.

Its theoretically not relevant until some major changes have occured during the new decade! Or we make it to another decade!

It’s slightly less relavant than the fact that “Talk Like a Pirate Day” is September 19th.

Relevant to what? If you are someone who provides pre-printed forms, it is relevant, because you would have had to think ahead about how to format slots for the year: 200_ wouldn’t work any longer, while 201_ would be good for ten years, and 20__ for one hundred.

Otherwise it’s only relevant if you think it is.

Is today the start of a new decade? It’s kind of like noon or midnight: 12:01 has a definite stance in morning or afternoon, but I’m not sure that a 9 year does. Since we started measuring time in our current system in year 1, doesn’t the new decade begin in 2011?

In either case, I don’t feel any different.

Considering the years are almost definitely inaccurate. And most-certainly are inaccurate, celestially speaking. It doesn’t hold much water with me.

Elementary counting l – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10
put any other number in front of it and it still takes 10 years to get to 10. The new decade doesn’t start until 2011.

@YARNLADY So from zero to one don’t count? Better go tell some announcers we have no zero, starting point is at number one.

@Hypocrisy_Central When you are counting, do you start counting days, months, pencils, or anything else by saying this one is zero, this one is one, this one is two? Do you have 10 fingers? Which one is the zero finger?

@YARNLADY Pencils are a whole in themselves, when it comes to months I start with the 1st day when actually the month is over when the amount of days is complete. This is the 1st month of they year even though the month is not up we still count it. If you could go back to the 1st calender that day up until the 365th day was year what? Year one or year zero? And if you can count it until it was fully over what would you call it?

@Hypocrisy_Central You aren’t even making sense. Every month starts with a l and from there the numbers go to 10 (the first decade of days) then start over with 11 through 20, and start the next 10 with 21. No month starts with a 0 day.

And by the way, with the current counting system, it has gone through at least on major change when several days simply disappeared. In reality there was no beginning, but if there was it was the first year, year 1

Just as every baby starts with the year 1, not 0. You are not born on your zeroth day or in your zeroth year, but your first day of your first year. Your first birthday celebration is to celebrate the first anniversary of your birth.

@YARNLADY – Unless you are Chinese. Then your first birthday celebration is to celebrate your birth. They include gestation as part of your life.

@YARNLADY Well the parents of Marcello and Stephano (twins) and the news crew that did a news segment on their birth seem to think that Mercello was born on New Years eve around 11:55 and his brother was born the next day and decade 15 minutes later Jan 1st. You can wait, enough of us are in the new decade now :-]

@Darwin Yes, I had forgotten about that. I think it’s a great idea.
@Hypocrisy_Central Only those with a romanticized sense of time. The mathematicians among us have to live with reality.