And months are not centuries. Nor do centuries have periodically repeating names.
They are different abstractions. Though both can be used to describe time, they do not describe it in the same way. Thanks, -- Raul On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:38 PM, 'Bo Jacoby' via Chat <[email protected]> wrote: > The months of the year have names. Not any period of 28, 29, 30 or 31 days is > a month. The years and centuries are numbered. 1956..2055 does not have a > century number and is not a century. > Den 21:41 onsdag den 30. maj 2018 skrev Raul Miller > <[email protected]>: > > > The years 1956..2055 are indeed a century. > > They are not, however, a Gregorian century. Nor, a Julian century. > > I trust you can see the distinctions. > > -- > Raul > > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 3:36 PM, 'Bo Jacoby' via Chat > <[email protected]> wrote: >> "tjugohundratalen" means the years 2000 . . 2099. This period is not a >> century, even if it consists of 100 consecutive years. The years 1956 . . >> 2055 is not a century either. The years 1 . . 100 is the 1. century. The >> years 2001 . . 2100 is the 21. century. >> >> Den 21:25 onsdag den 30. maj 2018 skrev 'Bo Jacoby' via Chat >> <[email protected]>: >> >> >> "2018 is the ninth year of the second decade etc"? No!The first decade >> consist of the years 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. The 202. decade consist of the >> years 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020. >> So 2018 is the 8. year of the 202. decade, which is the 2. decade of the 21 >> century, which is the 1. century of the 3. millenium. >> >> Den 19:30 onsdag den 30. maj 2018 skrev Don Guinn <[email protected]>: >> >> >> Sure seems Einstein was correct. According to his special theory of >> relativity, time varies depending on one's speed and location. There seems >> to be no agreement on time in this thread. >> >> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Björn Helgason <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> In Sweden they say 2018 as tjugohundraarton or tjugoarton >>> We are now in tjugohundratalen. >>> You can say it as twentyhundredeighteen or twentyeighteen. >>> We are now in the twentyhundreds or the twentyhundrednumbers. >>> >>> On Wed, 30 May 2018 16:03 R.E. Boss, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > > From: Chat <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 'Bo >>> Jacoby' >>> > > via Chat >>> > > Sent: dinsdag 29 mei 2018 08:14 >>> > >>> > > Do we agree that this year, AD 2018, is the eighth year of the of the >>> > > second decade of the first century of the third millenium? Or do you >>> > > consider it to be the seventh year of the first decade of the zeroth >>> > > century of the second millenium? The time passed until year 2018 are 2 >>> > > millenia, 0 centuries, 1 decade and 7 years, but those are not ordinal >>> > numbers. >>> > >>> > >>> > No, I don't. >>> > 2018 is the ninth year of the second decade etc., since the second decade >>> > started at the beginning of 2010, as the first decade, the first century >>> > and the third millennium started at 2000 1 1 0 0 0.000. >>> > Which notation is remarkable, since we indicate the first month and the >>> > first day by 1, all other time intervals we start with 0. >>> > But Miller explained that in >>> > http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/chat/2018-May/007794.html >>> > >>> > R.E. Boss >>> > >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
