"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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So is 1940 part of the '30s? I know your getting that from the Millennium
crap that this millennium didn't start until 2001 and that is true because
there was no year Zero and millennium means 1000 years.

But that little jewel of trivia doesn't apply to nicknames we give decades
or even centuries.

Right. "The '40s" means the years 1940 through 1949.