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How do leap day birthdays get handled in general? How is the right age iterated every year?
by xattt 3y ago
How do leap day birthdays get handled in general? How is the right age iterated every year?
- ao98 3y agoThe most common approach I’ve seen is to alias them to Mar 1st.
- DinaCoder99 3y agoSadly, I can say from experience the American draft does not count the number of birthdays celebrated to figure out if you're eligible to serve.
- paulddraper 3y agoBoth Feb 28 and Mar 1 are commonly used to celebrate birthdays. AFAIK there is no firm convention. Feb is more natural ("My birthday is in February"), Mar is more logical (the 60th days of the year).
- js2 3y agoIs March more logical? Feb 29 + 1 year = Feb 28.
- jey 3y agoWhat’s the significance of 365? Each Earth year has just a smidge under 365.25 days.
- js2 3y ago365 days is what people commonly think of as a year. So if you're born Feb 29th and celebrate your birthday one year later (whether you call that 365 or 365.25), you land on Feb 28th. Then again, folks born between Jan 1 and Feb 28th of a leap year celebrate their birthdays 366 days later by calendar days. Anyway, I'm not sure there's any more or less logical date to use and Feb 29th babies seem to choose both about equally: > “I love when people ask me, ‘Do you celebrate on Feb. 28 or March 1?’” said Raenell Dawn, a co-founder of Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies. “I get to tell them, ‘Both, because I can.’ But I’m a February baby; I was not born in March.” An informal poll of the society’s members showed about a 50-50 split between the two dates, said Ms. Dawn, who is celebrating her “Sweeter 16” by turning 64 this year. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/style/leap-year-explained.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZE0.d2UE.v0e0PbjW5NE6&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/style/leap-year-explained...
- dexterdog 3y agoCelebrating on the 28th makes no sense. That is when you celebrate your Birthday Eve every year so your birthday is the next day, whatever that is.
- usr1106 3y agoRelevant question for driving, voting, marrying, drinking. I'd assume just the date is compared. If you are born on 29th, on future 28th you are considered "too young", regardless whether a 29th exists or not. On future March 1st you are "old enough" again regardless. If a 29th exists you are old enough already on that date. Drinking beer in Germany at 16, I guess in some countries at 20 could be relevant cases. For the more common minimum age of 18 for many things, the limit is reached always on March, 1st because a 29th cannot exist.