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From: jaap@hpuamsa.UUCP (Jaap Vegter AEO)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Happy New Decade!
Message-ID: <10410001@hpuamsa.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 90 10:51:25 GMT
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re: happy new year and happy new decade....

Well, stating that a new decade started on Jan.1 this year (1990) is incorrect
I think.  The first decade ran from year 1 through year 10 and the second
decade started when the year 11 came around.  Likewise the current decade
runs from Jan.1 1981 through Dec.31 1990.  The next decade starts on Jan.1 1991
and the next century starts on Jan.1 2001.

All this aasumes that the first year was year 1 and not year 0.
This is a logical assumption since the first day in the first month of every
year is January (month 1, not month 0) 1 (and not 0).  If one wants to maintain
that the first year was 0 (instead of 1) than we should write todays date 
(January 2, 1990) in Year, Month, Day format as 1990 0 1 (January being months
zero and yesterday, new years day, being day zero).

Greetings and a happy new year, Jaap Vegter, Hewlett-Packard Netherlands.