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curl-6 said:
Conina said:

"next-gen", "last-gen", "current-gen"

"Namen sind Schall und Rauch", how Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said so appropriate in "Faust".

"names are sound and smoke", which means "names are hollow words" or "the name of an object/subject is irrelevant, it doesn't change its characteristics".

So last year isn't over because "last year" is just a name?

A year is no name, it is a precise time frame: " The period of time during which Earth completes a single revolution around the sun, consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds of mean solar time."

Beginning and end of the year depend on the calendar used, but the duration keeps the same (besides minor adaptions like leap years for conveniance).