Why not 20th Century being 2000- 2999?
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Imagine you have 10 apples. You eat 10 apples. Then you say “I have eaten 10 apples”. Ten whole apples makes a nice 10 and the tenth apple was still in the first 10 you are going to eat that day. Then you take another apple. It’s the eleventh apple. It’s the first apple towards second ten you are going to eat that day.
So how many tens of apples you have eaten before your belly starts hurting after eleventh apple? One ten and then started another set of ten-apples. So you are already within the second ten.
Same with hours, same with years. When the midnight strikes and it’s a New Years party of year “1900”, it means that 1900 years have already passed since we started using this counting system. But when the first second after midnight strikes, it’s already one second into a year 1901. You celebrate when the whole year passes.
Right now we say “it’s a year 2023”. But in reality it means 2023 years have passed since we started using this counting system (birth of Christ) and it’s actually a year 2024th. We are 7 months and 14 days into a year 2024 and on Dec 31st, 2023, 00:00 it will have been 2024 years since we started counting. 00:01 will be one second into the year 2025th, but we will be saying “it’s a year 2024”. However, clocks always say it’s a new year at 00:00 hours. Because a fraction of a second makes it already in the past.
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