On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:40 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15/10/2011 7:43 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> A decade consists of 10 years. If the first decade of the Christian Era, >> (screw political correctness), starts with year 1 then the last year of >> a decade if you wish to be consistent, ends with year 10, if you wish to >> be consistent. Besides when you refer to a decade such as the sixties >> you refer more to a zeitgeist, rather than an actual decade. Hell a lot >> of music people identify with the 60's actually was produced in the >> early '70's. It's all malleable depending on what you wish to measure, >> but given that a decade has 10 years and that we begin number at years >> with1 then the last year of a decade ends with 0. >> > > > So did the 1990s start in 1990 or 1991?
90's, i'm still working on the 60's.:-) dAVE > > > -- > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
