[WikiEN-l] Interwiki links for the Icelandic decade articles.

[James D. Forrester]

On Mon, 22nd November 2004, at 19:34, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Similarly, the "twentieth century" begins in 1901 and ends in
> 2000, unlike the English twentieth century which begins in 1900 and
> ends in 1999.

Umm. Actually, this is oft a point of confusion; although decades do, indeed
start in xyz0 and continued until xyz9, centuries, millenia, and longer
periods of time start from xy01 and continue to x(y+1)00. Hence the
beginning of this millennium was on the 1st of January 200*1*, although the
first decade primarily within said millennium had started the year
beforehand, and the end thereof is to be the 31st of December 3000, not
2999.

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Yours, confusingly,
-- 
James D. Forrester -- Wikimedia: [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]

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