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In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> [...]
> to the digits, and for some reason, we have a liking to numbers which end in
> lots of 0s, so with that perspective in mind, the millenium clearly starts in
> 2000, after all, when we talk about the 80s, we mean 1980/01/01 to 1989/12/31
> not 1981/01/01 to 1990/12/31.
But if you're talking about the 9th decade of the 20th century, aren't you
referring to 1981/01/01 to 1990/12/31?
--Todd
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| (...) in (...) 1989/12/31 (...) Well, my point would be that the 20th century most sensibly (to me) starts 1900/01/01 so the 9th decade would still start at 1980/01/01. But really its all pretty irrelevant. The 20th century isn't the 20th century of (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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