Global Hardware 21 December 2019

[Bofferbrauer2]

Wyrdness said:

Proxy-Pie said:

You start counting from 2011, because the Gregorian Calendar starts from 1CE.

Nope we start from the 0 now days hence why media outlets also do the same in classing 9 as the end the Gregorian calender has no bearing on this.

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Don't be so sure. That depends very much on where you are and who you ask.

In fact, the notion that decades end with 9 came only up with the millenium bug, where nobody knew what PCs would do after the clock rolls over after 99. Before, decades, centuries and millenia were counted from x1 to x0, xx1  to x00 and xxx1 to x000, respectively.

All you've done is give the reasoning for counting from 0 it doesn't disprove what I said especially as 0-9 is what we do now days pretty much in most places what they did centuries ago doesn't matter as we never used to put the clocks back and forward before the war but now we do.

Well, the scientific way to count is still 1-0, and that probably won't change. So that's technically the correct way to count, but many outside science and academica don't do so these days. 

The question is what the general public will do in the future. Will it go full 0-9, 1-0, mix and match or cycle between those 2?