Is 2016 mid 2010s?

[Pools2013]

Or late 2010s?

[Xero_Daxter]

Yes

[Tonepoet]

One third of a decade is 3 years and 4 months. We usually count years in integer numbers, so we round down to 3 years. We have a remainder of one year, so one extra year is going to necessarily be clumped together with one of the three groups.


I"d say the middle of a decade would be 4, 5 and 6. That way you have 7/8 and 9 as the late portion of the decade, and 0, 1, 2 and 3 as the early portion of the decade. For 6 not to count, you'd have to argue that 0, 1 and 2 are the early portion, 3,4 and 5 are the middle portion, and 6, 7, 8 and 9 are the late portion. I just strongly doubt that most people would consider 3 in the middle of a decade rather than early. It just feels like too low of a number, because we do not start counting from 0. We start counting from 1. Year 0 necessarily has to count as an early portion of the decade though. It should also be noted that 6 comes immediately after 5, and 5 years would be considered the halfway point.

So I'd say yes, 2016 is mid-2010s.

[Devsman]

Could be either.

You have to make a call on which "third" gets four and 16 is mid in two of the three:

0-3, 4-6, 7-9
0-2, 3-6, 7-9
0-2, 3-5, 6-9

[kbiz]

Mid 2010s is 2013.3 to 2016.6. So 2016 is both mid and late. Mid 2025 starts May 2.

[WhiteKnight77]

There never was a year 0. It went from 1 BC to AD 1. Now figure out when a decade ends if a decade ends in just 9. Someone's math screwed up.

[Tonepoet]

Escrito originalmente por WhiteKnight77:

There never was a year 0. It went from 1 BC to AD 1. Now figure out when a decade ends if a decade ends in just 9. Someone's math screwed up.

Doesn't matter much for the purposes of counting decades. We don't say 1990 was part of the 1980s.

[Devsman]

Escrito originalmente por WhiteKnight77:

There never was a year 0. It went from 1 BC to AD 1. Now figure out when a decade ends if a decade ends in just 9. Someone's math screwed up.

I personally think it makes more since for the "first decade" to run from 1 BCE to 9 CE instead of making every other decade that there is run from 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, etc. Especially since the distinctions between decades in the first century are hardly ever relevant or important.

Either way, the common nomenclature of referring to a decade by its tens place is going to imply a 0-9 grouping, and you'll consequently always be fighting an uphill battle if you choose something different.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

I not care.. there is 80s, 90s.. and 2000s
anything since remains 2000s

2002 is yesterday.. 2024 also yesterday
1999 was the day before yesterday..

(I know in numbers thats not true but basicly to my mind, and feeling.. thats how it feels)

just one big haze of the 2000s... with before that "the good years"

before ww2 -> prehistory.. unfantambly long ago
50 antiquity...
60s middle ages
70s the before times
80s childhood
90s teenage years
2000s -> adult years blur

[WhiteKnight77]

Escrito originalmente por Devsman:

Escrito originalmente por WhiteKnight77:

There never was a year 0. It went from 1 BC to AD 1. Now figure out when a decade ends if a decade ends in just 9. Someone's math screwed up.

I personally think it makes more since for the "first decade" to run from 1 BCE to 9 CE instead of making every other decade that there is run from 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, etc. Especially since the distinctions between decades in the first century are hardly ever relevant or important.

Either way, the common nomenclature of referring to a decade by its tens place is going to imply a 0-9 grouping, and you'll consequently always be fighting an uphill battle if you choose something different.

I called a Catholic church and talked to the pastor and he even stated that a decade ends in 0 per the Gregorian Calendar due to when BC ended and AD began.