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I've been using my own calendar a long, long time, and I am just so tired of all these chronically early people.
posted by
myrrhage_
on January 15, 2010 at 8:13 AM
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I know, Naut, I just wasn't thinking... you are right of course.
posted by
mneme
on January 11, 2010 at 2:11 AM
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What about the Chinese Calendar?
Animal years. This year is the year of the tiger.
posted by
Hackthorne19
on January 6, 2010 at 7:01 AM
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That reminds me
I have a new 2010 calendar if only I could remember where I put it. Maybe I'll find it before the year is over.
posted by
Whacky
on January 5, 2010 at 5:01 PM
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Hey....! Could I really invent one of my own? How about placing the weekends at both ends of the week, AND in the middle, too? ....This could be fun...!
posted by
Darson
on January 5, 2010 at 7:36 AM
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Hi Naut
We ARE still in the first decade of the 21st century, and Corbin Dallas did so well in explaining the history of mathematics behind it!
posted by
KaBooM62
on January 4, 2010 at 10:42 PM
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I think I will invent my own Nautikos..lol.
posted by
shobana
on January 3, 2010 at 4:59 PM
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Funny. Thank you.
posted by
Amanda__
on January 3, 2010 at 2:50 PM
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lol, its those little things that bother me sometimes
and it seems like the world is just getting more stupid every day. However, dont forget who is in the media :) I dont think its the majority around here.
posted by
Tzippy
on January 3, 2010 at 7:47 AM
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I always tell everyone to count the year 2000 when putting dates together. This is a good entry! Shelly
posted by
sam444
on January 2, 2010 at 10:54 AM
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It can get a bit confusing..:)
Humans - always jumping ahead of the clock/calendar. And then complaining that time flies too fast.
Thank you for clarifying.
posted by
LizaM
on January 1, 2010 at 8:48 PM
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I remember people bringing up that fact when it was the year 2000...Amazing all the calendars out there.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 1, 2010 at 5:01 PM
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It's all because there was no year "0"........
From the math forum:
A millennium is by definition "a period of 1000 years." The question,
therefore, is, What span of years was covered by the first millennium?
... the second millennium? etc.
If the first millennium began with the year 0 AD, then you could
count: 0, 1, 2, ..., 98, 99 would be 100 years. Those 100 years would
be the first century ("period of 100 years"). The second century would
begin on January 1, AD 100. Similarly, the second millennium would
begin on January 1, 1000, and the third millennium on January 1, 2000.
However, it's an historical fact that THERE WAS NO YEAR AD 0. The
first century began on January 1, AD 1. You can follow the same logic
as above to see that the first century encompassed the years 1, 2,
..., 100, and the second century began on Jan. 1, AD 101. Likewise,
the next millennium will begin on Jan. 1, 2001.
Here is where the history of math comes into the picture. If it were
not for what follows, I would not care a bit when people want to say
the millennium begins - it's just an arbitrary day with no deep
significance. But I am fascinated by the history of math, and here we
have one occasion when math history has a significant impact on things
that are happening now.
Here's why. The calendar was developed around AD 525, by Dionysius
Exiguus. At that time in Europe, numbers were written in Roman
numerals. Our Hindu-Arabic number system had not been invented. There
was no such thing as zero; the earliest known use of a zero was in
India 350 years later.
Using Roman numerals, Dionysius had no choice: numbers started with I.
The year after I BC was AD I in his reckoning. There was no number to
give to a year in between.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 1, 2010 at 3:59 PM
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Aren't they the same ones who say nuk - u - lar?
posted by
TAPS.
on January 1, 2010 at 3:53 PM
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Ok, I'm one of the culprits; sorry to add to the confusion.
Even if it's not a new decade it's a new year, so happy New Year Nautikos.
posted by
elinjo
on January 1, 2010 at 11:24 AM
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All commercial bull, Nautikos. Saw a couple of advertisements during the hockey game last night - doing the "new decade in 2010" thing - made me shake my head. Some things (read: marketing) just never change, LOL!
posted by
adnohr
on January 1, 2010 at 7:56 AM
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