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How about birthdays? When you turn "1" it's your second birthday. Or counting three seconds. Start counting zero..one..two..three.
by gre 2y ago
How about birthdays? When you turn "1" it's your second birthday. Or counting three seconds. Start counting zero..one..two..three.
- taraparo 2y agoThe number on your yearly "birthday" is not the number of birthdays you had (you only have one birthday) but the number of years you survived since your birth. So the day of your fifth birthday is the first day of your sixth year alive.
- noahlt 2y agoarray.length
- gre 2y agoBirthday vs birth day but yeah. It works if you say it
- dasyatidprime 2y agoI've generally seen “birthday” (within a year; recurs) versus “birthdate” (happens once).
- ars 2y agoJewish law sometimes counts from 1 instead of 0 for birthdays, so a newborn is not 0 years old, they are in their 1st year. (But it's written as "when they are 1", so you have to know which counting method is being used.)
- hangonhn 2y agoChinese traditional age counting does the same. My mother had to constantly explain to our relatives when I tell them my age -- I use Western conventions.
- Fred27 2y agoKorea has a system similar to this. You start at age 1 and get one year older each New Year's Day. https://www.90daykorean.com/korean-age-all-about-age-in-korea/ https://www.90daykorean.com/korean-age-all-about-age-in-kore...
- whycome 2y agoThey changed the system last year after using it for many years (+/-1). https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/6/28/why-are-south-koreans-one-year-younger-today https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/6/28/why-are-south-k...