end of the decade?

Decades are fake anyway but voting for the one that makes this one over sooner

Numbers ending in 0 are the tenth of each sequence beginning with numbers ending in 1.

Meaningfully it's pissing in the wind to argue with the simple joy of visual consonance.

its obviously 2019

the decade ended on 21 12 2012 along with everything else

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Bolon_Yokte%27_K%27uh.jpg

"Numbers ending in 0 are the tenth of each sequence beginning with numbers ending in 1."

year 0 is the first year

NV otm eight ways to Sunday

'Immediately following 14 July 1789, papers and pamphlets started calling 1789 year I of Liberty and the following years II and III. It was in 1792, with the practical problem of dating financial transactions, that the legislative assembly was confronted with the problem of the calendar. Originally, the choice of epoch was either 1 January 1789 or 14 July 1789. After some hesitation the assembly decided on 2 January 1792 that all official documents would use the "era of Liberty" and that the year IV of Liberty started on 1 January 1792. This usage was modified on 22 September 1792 when the Republic was proclaimed and the Convention decided that all public documents would be dated Year I of the French Republic. The decree of 2 January 1793 stipulated that the year II of the Republic began on 1 January 1793; this was revoked with the introduction of the new calendar, which set 22 September 1793 as the beginning of year II."

a decade can be any ten year range but if you’re saying “the twenties” this refers to years with a 2 in the tens digit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_nineteenth_century

and likewise:

https://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/bj/9781628924206.jpg

This is the last week of the decade. Some thoughts:

(1) As far as cyber-pedantry goes, one of the more annoying manifestations is the “actually the new decade starts in 2021 because there’s no Year Zero” crowd. (Remember the whole when does the new millennium really start controversy? Good times.) Decades are conventional concepts, and the conventional concept of a decade starts with the zero year. Saying the conventional concept is wrong is an oxymoron, since what makes conventional concepts conventional is convention.

Actually this objection to the pedantic objection might actually be more pedantic than the objection itself. Sorry about that.

(2) It’s going to be a relief to get back to decades that have non-problematic names. I literally never heard anyone call this one “the teens” or “the tens” or anything else for that matter. Did it even have a name? And “the aughts” was ridiculous. I’ve also literally never heard any American use the word “aught” in any context, except when clumsily trying to give the first decade of this century a name.

(3) Culturally speaking, decades don’t really track the calendar except loosely. For example, as a cultural matter the Sixties really ran from November 1963 to August 1974. Etc.

From http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/12/ten-years-gone-2

decades don't work the way centuries do

year 0 is the first year

Agreed, I love the Khmer Rouge

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/nintchdbpict000312438126.jpg

the decade ended on 21 12 2012 along with everything else

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