This (the Josh in the link) is a troll. I'd like a source on your post too because "Centuries ago they started counting by counting the first item as one." That's how counting is done now too. Even stop watches, which start at 00:00:00.000, the first "thing" (unit of time) is still counted and still counted as 1, 00:00:00.001 when it's elapsed. The confusion here (submission) isn't actual confusion. It's just a troll and people being retarded. The troll is the idea that you don't get to 1 until you have gotten to the second item in a set. Which is neither correct nor incorrect. The problem is that in a hypothetical counting of "time" (day in a week) the moment you get to the second item, the second item has also finished as you can't hypothetically pass a day's worth of time to count that day.