> > There is no "year 0" between 1 BC and 1 AD. This is perhaps the most > common fencepost problem in existance. The "great renaming" of AD to CE > and doing away with BC by replacing them with "off by one" numbers less > than 1 does not change the fact that there was, in fact, no year 0.
Obviously the character(s) responsible for dates etc were NOT C programmers! On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 14:45, Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote: > On 12/30/19 10:10 PM, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 4:07 AM Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Monday, 30 December, 2019 19:29, Michael Falconer < > michael.j.falco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> As we approach the end of yet another year ( and indeed decade ). > >> Technically, every year is the end of a decade, if one means the > immediately preceding ten years. > >> > >> However, if you mean the end of the second decade of the 21st century, > you will have to wait another year for that. January 1st, 0001 AD was the > first day of the year 1. The first decade ended at the end of December > 31st 0011 AD, not December 31st, 0010 AD. (if following the proleptic > Gregorian calendar). > > Languages don't work like this. > > > > https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/decade > > > > Cheers > > Its a difference between ordinals and numerals. The 20th century was > from the beginning of 1901 to the end of 2000. We also have the century > called the 1900's which went from 1900 to the end of 1999. > > Decade would work the same way, the 202st decade goes from 2011 to end > of 2020, but the 2010s go from 2010 to end of 2019. > > -- > Richard Damon > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > -- Regards, Michael.j.Falconer. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
