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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 55 points 3 months ago

All this pedantism about century start dates, and everyone missed they could have called her a millennium baby but went for century instead.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Plot twist: The year 2000 Chinese New Year was actually on February 5th, a year of the dragon.

https://www.pinyin.info/chinese_new_year/cny2000-2099.html

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Plot twist: Centuries end in "0", they don't start in "0".

The 21st Century started 1/1/2001.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 months ago

Mathematics and languages have different rules.

In languages it is possible for one century to be a yewa shorter than all the others. Other centuries begin on a year divisible by hundred, but centuries 1–99 and -1–-99 don't. They are both missing a year, and outside mathematics that's just fine.

If almost all native speakers of a language say that a century begins in a year divisible by hundred then that's how it goes in that language.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuck sake, I thought we'd left this argument back in 99.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 8 points 3 months ago

We’re still gonna party.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I don't feel like this is correct.

[–] usrtrv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Correct.

The 1st century started at 1 A.D. and included 100. 2nd century started 101 to 200. Etc etc. If you change the 21st century to be 2000. You would to shift everything down. Eventually making the 1st century 99 years. Or creating a year 0 or using 1BC.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is why the years in the "20th Century" started with "19". 20 is the end, not the start.

[–] faultywalnut@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was the 20th century because if you count centuries starting at 1-99 CE, 1900-1999 is the twentieth one

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

One to 99 is not a century. :)

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Haha, touché salesman 👍

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So actually a quarter-century baby.

[–] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wtf a deadly heart attack at age 25??

[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Delay nothing

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

Not sure he is missing out on much... Another 50 years of working to stay alive...

Maybe he moved on to a better place.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

That’s not a good sign

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

One year too early for the title? The 21st century started on 2001.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How so? The first century surely started with year 0, the first year. Just like a person is zero years old during its first year. And years 0-99 make up the first century. Then the second century starts at 100-199, and so on. 🤷‍♂️

[–] falseprophet@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

there is no year 0 we started at 1.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] falseprophet@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken but it irrelevant to when the millennium starts anyway

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken

Huh, that's really interesting ☺️ kinda cute ngl

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

You should have told that to those guys 2025 years ago.

There is no year 1 in our current calendar system either. The Gregorian Calendar begins in 1582. The Julian Calendar includes year 1, but changed in year 8, so 0001-01-01 is a slightly different day in the Gregorian Calendar, the Julian Calendar, and the old Julian Calendar. 2000 years after Julian Calendar 0001-01-01 is late December 2000.

This has less meaning in China because China used its own calendar until 1911. People living in China 2000 years before 2001-01-01 would not have called it year 1.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] falseprophet@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Looked it up now, you're correct.

Although there are instances of year zero, like with astronomical years.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It's complicated.

There's a "strict" way and then there's a "common perception and practice" way. You're thinking of the strict way.

But yeah, sure. I guess it's due to the fact that we don't have a year zero, really, which is counterintuitive for us in the modern era, I suppose. At least for me.