Stardates and Decades

I have seen, lately, many top ten decade lists, but I am in the camp that believes we have not completed the decade yet. This blogger explains it as well as any other:

The new decade starts 0n 1 January 2011, just as the new Millennium started on 1 January 2001.
The Victorians celebrated the start of the twentieth century on 1 January 1901. On 31 December 1900, The Daily Telegraph published an article on ‘The Departing Century’ by Sir Edwin Arnold. Christmas 1900 was referred to ‘as the last of the century’. Fast forward to 1999. I tabled a question to ask the Goverment why the new Millennium was officially being celebrated a year early. In response, Lord McIntosh of Haringey conceded that the Government accepted that the new Millennium started on 1 January 2001. However, he said, ‘many people wish to celebrate during the year 2000′. Consequently, it was decided in 1994 that the Millennium Commission would fund projects throughout 2000 ‘and into the new Millennium’. This all appears to be a case of having one’s cake and eating it. As The Daily Telegraph observed, the Home Office had allocated an additional bank holiday for 31 December 1999 ‘in recognition of the celebratory nature of the Millennium’.

The LINK is here to the blog. I know a lot of people disagree with me on this, but for me, the decade ends the end of this year.

If you want to get really complicated, you can calculate time in Stardates as they do on Star Trek. There is even a converter on the website to help you convert today´s date.

Expressing Contemporary Dates as Stardates
Find the fictional Stardate that corresponds to "today's" date
Since the Stardate systems used in various Star Trek episodes are meant to measure time in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Centuries, the same Stardate system cannot be used to express contemporary dates (i.e., in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries).
However, for those who would like to create Stardates to represent contemporary dates, there are three methods that can be used:
Represent the current date in YYMM.DD format, where "YY" is the current year minus 1900, MM is the current month (01-12), and DD is the current day of the month (01-31). For example, September 08, 1966, would be written as "Stardate 6609.08" in the YYMM.DD format. Another digit must be added for years after 1999, such that September 11, 2001, would be written as "Stardate 10109.11" in the YYMM.DD format. This system can be used to express any year after 1900 in Stardate format. This system also roughly corresponds to the Stardates used in the first six Star Trek motion pictures, such that if a new movie were made today in The Original Series continuity, then its Stardate would be close to the YYMM.DD format.
Using the new Stardate format in Star Trek XI, dates may be expressed in YYYY.xx format, where YYYY is the actual four-digit year, and .xx represents the fraction of the year to two decimal places (i.e., hundredths of a year). For example, January 1, 1999, would correspond to Stardate 1999.00, while July 2, 1999, would correspond to Stardate 1999.50 (half-way through the year 1999).For any given date, simply calculate the number of days it has been since January 1, then express that as a percentage of the year (the number of days since January 1 divided by 365 should give the number to follow the decimal in the Stardate).
Use the Stardate of the current Star Trek episode or movie to represent today's Stardate.
Today is Stardate 63515.1, using The Next Generation Stardate system (i.e., that would be the Stardate of this week's episode if The Next Generation and its spinoffs were still in production).To express other contemporary dates in The Next Generation Stardate format, use the calculator below.
Here is a link to the SITE and enjoy!