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Lots of people struggle to understand that centuries end in years ending 00 because there was no year 0.
I've twice had an edit making this clear reverted, once without explanation, and once by someone saying they thought it was sufficiently clear. Edit warring is bad. I'd like consensus for the following edit, the proposed addition being in bold:
Thanks -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 12:16, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
The terms "strict" and "general" can be pretty vague when you put some thought to it ("general" is not used by Historians and most scientist and governmental agencies) and "strict" seems a bit biased to me, implying the other approaches are not "strict" and should be further discussed. "Conservative" would of course, be easily identified as adhering to its traditional definition whereas "conventional" is believed to be what the majority perspective stands. The changes would look like this.
Which is why I invite editors to comment on this idea, and vote to support or oppose. Dinosauce2001 ( talk) 19:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Strictly speaking, centuries run from 01 to 100, meaning that the new century begins on the first day of the year 01 (i.e. 1 January 1901, 1 January 2001, etc.). In practice and in popular perception, however, the new century is held to begin when the significant digits in the date change, e.g. on 1 January 2000, when 1999 became 2000.
The picture showing the strict versus the popular way of looking at centuries, shows the popular 1st century, i.e. the first 100 years, as consisting of the years 1 - 99. Madyno ( talk) 21:19, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
01259 103.171.69.83 ( talk) 12:39, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Now time for .. штамповать часы показывающие века и тысячелетия.
P.S. Живём как Микробы или Галактики. Жутко интересно. Очень .. 176.59.208.240 ( talk) 21:54, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
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Lots of people struggle to understand that centuries end in years ending 00 because there was no year 0.
I've twice had an edit making this clear reverted, once without explanation, and once by someone saying they thought it was sufficiently clear. Edit warring is bad. I'd like consensus for the following edit, the proposed addition being in bold:
Thanks -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 12:16, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
The terms "strict" and "general" can be pretty vague when you put some thought to it ("general" is not used by Historians and most scientist and governmental agencies) and "strict" seems a bit biased to me, implying the other approaches are not "strict" and should be further discussed. "Conservative" would of course, be easily identified as adhering to its traditional definition whereas "conventional" is believed to be what the majority perspective stands. The changes would look like this.
Which is why I invite editors to comment on this idea, and vote to support or oppose. Dinosauce2001 ( talk) 19:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
Strictly speaking, centuries run from 01 to 100, meaning that the new century begins on the first day of the year 01 (i.e. 1 January 1901, 1 January 2001, etc.). In practice and in popular perception, however, the new century is held to begin when the significant digits in the date change, e.g. on 1 January 2000, when 1999 became 2000.
The picture showing the strict versus the popular way of looking at centuries, shows the popular 1st century, i.e. the first 100 years, as consisting of the years 1 - 99. Madyno ( talk) 21:19, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
01259 103.171.69.83 ( talk) 12:39, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
Now time for .. штамповать часы показывающие века и тысячелетия.
P.S. Живём как Микробы или Галактики. Жутко интересно. Очень .. 176.59.208.240 ( talk) 21:54, 17 October 2023 (UTC)