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From: KLUB@maristb.bitnet (Richard Budd)
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Subject: Re: Another Year Finished
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Date: 31 Dec 90 21:10:00 GMT
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TELECOM Moderator (Pat Townson) writes in Telecom Digest #908
 
>Another year is finished ... and the decade of the eighties is ending.
 
My solution to the dilemma of when decades and centuries is
semantical.  The 1980's obviously refer to the years 1980-1989 as the
1990's will be the years 1990-1999.  However, as Pat and others point
out, the Year of Our Lord began with the Year One, not the Year Zero;
ergo the 21st Century begins on January 1, 2001 (Arthur B. Clarke had
it right when he wrote 2001).  The 199th Decade ends tonight, December
31, 1990 and the 200th Decade begins tomorrow, January 1, 1991.
 
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and Decade,
 

Richard Budd   klub@maristb.bitnet   Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY