Quick apostrophe plea

[maharetr]

A call to the knowledgeable people of my flist!

Which sentence is correct, apostrophe-wise:

"Written in the 1960's, this book..."

"Written in the 1960s, this book..."

Comments

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

The latter, though you see the first a lot too.

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Yep on both accounts. I hate people who abuse the poor apostrophe! It's not that hard, dammit, learn how to use them correctly!

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

I was cataloguing books at work, and using the example sentence a lot, because they were old books and we needed to indicate that. I'd type in 1960s, and the program would turn it red (i.e. wrong), but I ignored it and forged ahead. Then I was reading some lecture notes: "The 1980's saw a surge in the demand for..." and had an attack of the doubts. *gleefully corrects her tutor's lecture notes* [grin]