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Originally Posted by Zero1986
I've seen this so many times on other forums. Yes i'm aware that there was no year 0AD but in modern times a decade is acknowledged as beginning in the year xxx0 and ending in xxx9, it just makes more mathematical sense. Therefore the 00's started on the 1st January 2000 and ended on the 31st December 2009.
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Yeah, people who make the "but there wasn't a year zero" argument always fail to realize that there wasn't a year one either. The gregorian calendar wasn't adopted until many centuries after the fact and the julian calendar which it was modification of actually began in 45 BC.