Question about how we refer to the 70s, 80s and 90s etc

When it becomes 2100 will the 70s, 80s, 90s be referred to as 2070, 2080 and 2090 or will it forever be 1970, 1980 and 1990?

Originally posted by HumbleServant
When it becomes 2100 will the 70s, 80s, 90s be referred to as 2070, 2080 and 2090 or will it forever be 1970, 1980 and 1990?

If it was 1993 and someone said the 60's sounds like it would have been a cool time to grow up in, we would naturally assume they meant the 1960's and not the 1460's or some such.

I think that would be par for the course with every other century.

They might digitize it to 2.101

The 70😖, 80😖, and 90😖 should always refer to the last recent decade of that denotation.

ok got you. So if some one says 10s or 20s it would mean 2010 and 2020 right?

Generally correct.

The exceptions are if you're talking to someone extremely old and they lived through the 1910s and/or 1920s. But that's going to be rare now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_Tanaka

Originally posted by Robtard
Generally correct.

The exceptions are if you're talking to someone extremely old and they lived through the 1910s and/or 1920s. But that's going to be rare now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_Tanaka

Originally posted by Wonder Man
They might digitize it to 2.101

You mean star date 2.0.7.0!

Honestly though it will probably be like 20, 70 as two separate numbers.