Last I heard, 1970 was part of the twentieth century - I have never heard it referred to as the tenths century?
Perhaps also worth reviewing the definitions here: Century: 1. a period of one hundred years. "a century ago most people walked to work" 2. a company in the ancient Roman army, originally of one hundred men. Month: 1. each of the twelve named periods into which a year is divided. "the first six months of 1992" 2. a period of time between the same dates in successive calendar months. "the president's rule was extended for six more months from March 3" 3. a period of 28 days or four weeks. "the fourth month of pregnancy" I think it's important, when dealing with people to realize that human languages associate many concrete concepts with individual words. Thanks, -- Raul On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:57 PM, 'Bo Jacoby' via Chat <[email protected]> wrote: > Centuries within millenia have periodically repeating names: first century . > . tenths century. They describe time intervals in exactly the same way. Today > is: 3. millenium, 1. century, 2. decennium, 8. year, 5. month, 30. day. > > Den 23:43 onsdag den 30. maj 2018 skrev Raul Miller > <[email protected]>: > > > 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. 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