One year too early for the title? The 21st century started on 2001.
How so? The first century surely started with year 0, the first year. Just like a person is zero years old during its first year. And years 0-99 make up the first century. Then the second century starts at 100-199, and so on. 🤷♂️
there is no year 0 we started at 1.
Who is “we”?
mankind
Looked it up now, you’re correct.
Although there are instances of year zero, like with astronomical years.
Babies don’t start at 1.
In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken but it irrelevant to when the millennium starts anyway
In many Asian countries they do if I am not mistaken
Huh, that’s really interesting ☺️ kinda cute ngl
You should have told that to those guys 2025 years ago.
There is no year 1 in our current calendar system either. The Gregorian Calendar begins in 1582. The Julian Calendar includes year 1, but changed in year 8, so 0001-01-01 is a slightly different day in the Gregorian Calendar, the Julian Calendar, and the old Julian Calendar. 2000 years after Julian Calendar 0001-01-01 is late December 2000.
This has less meaning in China because China used its own calendar until 1911. People living in China 2000 years before 2001-01-01 would not have called it year 1.
There’s a “strict” way and then there’s a “common perception and practice” way. You’re thinking of the strict way.
But yeah, sure. I guess it’s due to the fact that we don’t have a year zero, really, which is counterintuitive for us in the modern era, I suppose. At least for me.
