I’ll be taking Friday off for the turnover to a new decade, the 2010s. And yes, it is a new decade.
The way I see it, the decade-counting scheme is different from the sometimes-confusing convention for centuries and millennia: If you’re talking about the third millennium or the 21st century, you start with 2001. That’s because the ordinal numbers “third” and “21st” are used in the context of a counting system that started with the year 1, not the year zero. But if you’re talking…(read more)