"Turn of the Century"

Blisterman

Had a debate with a friend of mine earlier today. When someone refers to "The turn of the Century", when are they referring to?

Rabies

couple of years in to the new century i think

Fago!

Atari Jaguar as far as I knew!

Rabies

but I think people are still stuck in the mind set that its the 1900s

Superbus

Who was a 'turn of the century' musician - Scott Joplin or Britney Spears?

amacachi

The few years either side of a year ending in 00.

efb

amacachi wrote: »

The few years either side of a year ending in 01.

FYP

amacachi

efb wrote: »

FYP

Since "few" is a non-specific amount I think my post was fine.

amacachi

Just read the poll, the term now should mean around 2000, but from habit some people will use it to refer to around 1900.

efb

Yeah it was, soz for being anal

amacachi

efb wrote: »

Yeah it was, soz for being anal

Be as anal as you want, but only if you're correct. :pac:

efb

I believe I was more correct but it's all good!

The Aussie

Dont know, the Y2K bug got me, was on the toilet all week, worse bug than a bad curry...

Rented Mule

Anyone with any bit of intelligence will make sure to say 'the turn of the last century' when referring to the early 1900s.

L.Jenkins

1900 was the turn of one Centuary to another i.e. 1899 to 1900, end of the 19th Centuary and Beginning of the 20th.

If you still feel you're in the 20th Centuary, the please stop using boards as its a new Centuary all over again, oddly known as the 21st Centuary would you believe.

Hazys

The turn of the century is when we reach a certain year and start counting backwards instead, the next turn of the century is expected in 2014.

i.e.
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Turn
2013
2012
2011
2010
Turn
2011
2012
and so on

Its a govt scheme to keep everbody young

The Davestator

Blisterman wrote: »

Had a debate with a friend of mine earlier today. When someone refers to "The turn of the Century", when are they referring to?

You and your friend need to debate something much more interesting that this...

Zebra3

1st day of this century was 1/1/2001.

Hazys

Zebra3 wrote: »

1st day of this century was 1/1/2001.

Wouldn't it be 1/1/2000?

Since the very first century started on 1/1/0000.

Zebra3

Hazys wrote: »

Wouldn't it be 1/1/2000?

Since the very first century started on 1/1/0000.

There was no year 0.

1BC and 1AD.

Liam Byrne

efb wrote: »

I believe I was more correct but it's all good!

Zebra3 wrote: »

1st day of this century was 1/1/2001.

So each day starts at 1am, then ?

We celebrated the new millenium on Dec 31st, 1999 into Jan 1st, 2000 - not Dec 31st 2000 into Jan 1st, 2001!

Hazys

Zebra3 wrote: »

There was no year 0.

1BC and 1AD.

Your right there is no year 0....thats weird.

The Mayans predicted the world to end in 2012....but they forgot to take the 1, so 2012-1 = 2011!!!!!

Only 7 months left to live!!!! WE DIDN'T LISTEN!!!!

efb

It's an anomoly there was no year 0.
1901 was widely accepted as the beginning of the 20th century, 99 years later people got a bit ahead of themselves! All those 0's!

Liam Byrne

efb wrote: »

It's an anomoly there was no year 0.
1901 was widely accepted as the beginning of the 20th century, 99 years later people got a bit ahead of themselves!

Link / Proof ?

Also contradicting itself - if that first year was "an anomoly", then that would imply that every other century started at midnight at the start of the 00....that's what the "anomoly" means...the exception, and it would mean that 1900 was the beginning of the 20th century.

efb wrote: »

All those 0's!

http://bexgoes4you.com/brekfast/nestle%20cheerios.jpg

Stinicker

20th Century Fox pfft!

bnt

I associate the phrase Turn of the Century with 1900 far more than 2000 for artistic reasons: it was the Belle Époque, the "beautiful era", and such flowery language is a fitting description of the time.

Could we please not re-hash the argument over when a century or millennium starts or ends, m'kay? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. There was no year zero because there was the number zero was not understood when they were inventing the calendar, but there should have been one for mathematical reasons.

Zebra3

Liam Byrne wrote: »

So each day starts at 1am, then ?

No. Each day starts at midnight. 00:00:00. How old/thick are you? :eek:

Liam Byrne wrote: »

We celebrated the new millenium on Dec 31st, 1999 into Jan 1st, 2000 - not Dec 31st 2000 into Jan 1st, 2001!

Well, you were wrong. Like a lot of people, but don't get too upset about it.

efb wrote:

1901 was widely accepted as the beginning of the 20th century, 99 years later people got a bit ahead of themselves

Yep, the 1 Jan 1901 was when the Commonwealth of Australia came into being as it was considered by all at the time to be the first day of the 20th century.

Davidius

Zebra3 wrote: »

There was no year 0.

But gosh darn there should've been!

Liam Byrne

Zebra3 wrote: »

No. Each day starts at midnight. 00:00:00. How old/thick are you? :eek:

:rolleyes: You didn't see what I was getting at, did you ? How thick does that make you ?

Let me explain in a way that you might be able to comprehend:

You're saying that it's OK for a day to start at 00:00:00, even though - quite obviously - days existed before years.

And yet you're suggesting that - for some inexplicable reason - they didn't bother applying this starting point to the year ?

So - again inexplicably - they mixed the two differing "starting points" so that the first day started at 00:00:00 but in year 0001 ?

That was my point, and it's pretty clear, tbh. :P

I'm off to hit "start" on my stopwatch....in 365 days time it should say 00:00:00 00/00/02 :P

Zebra3

Liam Byrne wrote: »

:rolleyes: You didn't see what I was getting at, did you ? How thick does that make you ?

You obviously don't understand the concept of sarcasm.... :rolleyes:

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Let me explain in a way that you might be able to comprehend:

You're saying that it's OK for a day to start at 00:00:00, even though - quite obviously - days existed before years.

You're great entertainment, I'll give you that!!!!

Liam Byrne wrote: »

And yet you're suggesting that - for some inexplicable reason - they didn't bother applying this starting point to the year ?

So - again inexplicably - they mixed the two differing "starting points" so that the first day started at 00:00:00 but in year 0001 ?

That was my point, and it's pretty clear, tbh. :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.D.

Bit of reading for you.....

Liam Byrne

Zebra3 wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.D.

Bit of reading for you.....

I don't actually need it, because I was waiting for someone to spot the obvious; that being that while days may start at 00:00:00, if you follow the numbering of months and days in a month, the whole thing starts at 01

So the first second of a calendar would have been

00:00:00 01/01/01

Meaning that I was only playing devil's advocate - they're treated differently !

orourkeda

isn't it the 1st January 2001

Tar.Aldarion

1999.999999999999999