Global Hardware 21 December 2019

[Wyrdness]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Wyrdness said:

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.

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?

Science changes throughout the ages for example the Calender you and a few others are pointing to added 10 days to the year where as pre-Julian years were 355 or how Pluto's classification keeps changing so even in the realm of science and academia the are cases of no absolutes. The calender argument doesn't factor in that a decades began being referred to by their first number e.g. 90s which meant counting from 1-0 incorrectly placed one year in a prior decade.

Currently 0-9 is what tends to be used as it lines up with the age we live in a change was made 20 years ago and we've kept that change like how western countries kept changing the clocks.