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It just seems like they still used the age for things like: When do you start school, when can you vote, drink and so on, all of which in my mind has always bee
by mrweasel 3y ago
It just seems like they still used the age for things like: When do you start school, when can you vote, drink and so on, all of which in my mind has always been linked to some expectation of maturity (justified or not).
If school starts a six, then some of those children could be one to two years younger than others. For adult either way seems fine, there's little difference between 35 and 37, but for the youngest children it seems like it would make a huge difference.
- Symbiote 3y agoUnder the old system, the oldest person "age 6" is still 365 days older than the youngest. An infant born on 2022-01-01 is currently "2", the same "age" as a baby born on 2022-12-31.
- TheCoelacanth 3y agoThe children will all still be within one year of each other, they're just making the cutoff for each year-long age cohort December 31 instead of some date in August or September like they would in the US. In practice, it makes little difference.