Also, how would that work on things like birth certificates?
I feel like celebrating on March 1st when it’s not a leap year makes the most sense. If someone was born on February 29, then their birthday is the day after February 28.
I feel like celebrating on February 28th when it’s not a leap year makes the most sense. If someone was born on February 29, then their birthday is the day before March 1.
I feel like celebrating only on February 29th during a leap year makes the most sense. If someone was born on February 29, then that’s their birthday and their rate of aging is slowed by %80.
Your 80% claim doesn’t account for people who live through a year divisible by 100 but not 400.
Children born today could feasibly turn 18 in 2096, but won’t celebrate their 19th birthday in 2100. They’ll turn 19 in 2104.
If their birthday is really % 80 then they reset to a newborn after age 79.
Username checks out, gottem with the modulo.
If you want to argue for celebrating on the 28th, I would argue that you are actually 1 year older the day before your birthday. That is why you can buy alcohol the day before you turn 21. At least where I live.
Or it’s the day before March 1.
Turned 13 today. I complain that my wife only buys me a present every four years. She says if I keep saying that, it may come true. Also, at work, I tell them to excuse my behavior, I’m just acting my age.
As far as 28th vs March 1st, well, I celebrate both days. If I’m getting scammed out of birthdays three out of four years, I’m taking an extra day on those off years!
I like this take the best
Feb 29th. I’m 7 now.
j/k
It’s an old meme sir, but it checks out.
Wow, he’s probably older than his target now.
That’s generally how it works, yes.
Fuck, I definitely drank too much, how the fuck did it cycle back to 2008?
Who said we left mate?
be real cool if you weren’t making a funny little joke about pedophiles there, mate
Man, I never realized how big that foot was.
My friend in grammar school had a Leap Day birthday and his parents’ solution was that his birthday was celebrated “the day after February 28th”.
In my country that’s the legal definition of February 29. So if it’s not a leap year, February 29 is March 1.
Related question is when does the government celebrate your birthday. Sure, you can go apply for your drivers license on your 16th birthday on February 29, but your 18th and 21st birthdays aren’t on leap years. When can you get your first legal drink? (I’m assuming March 1st, as the bars don’t want to risk serving you a day early.)
Idk about other governments but the US seems to be “after the 28th”, so you can drink on March 1st
I think it’s the going solution pretty much everywhere.
I don’t know but I’d assume that the birth certificate just states the date of your birth. It is an actual date, just one that doesn’t occur annually.
So then I’d be curious. Does their drivers license show it expiring on the 28th or 1st?
My driver’s license (Dutch) doesn’t expire on my birthday but 10 years after the date it was issued. If it were issued on the 29th of februari, it would expire on March first since it would be valid on the 28th but not on the 1st.
Most in America expire on your birthday in X number of years even if the date of issue is a different day.
Weird.
I went to high school with twins born on the 29th. If I remember correct they celebrated on the 28th.
One should have taken the 28th while the other took the 1st
They could have picked whatever they want parents are still only throw’n one party
Wife and I just had this conversation about drinking in the US. Legal drinking age is 21. So if you’re born Feb 29th, can you drink on the 28th? No. If your birthday is January 2nd, you can’t drink on January 1st. Only makes sense to me that it’d be March 1st, but I’m born in Dec, so not really my choice or opinion that matters. :-D Just saying.
My aunt and an uncle (coincidentally, the same aunt’s daughter’s husband) are both born on Leap Day and they celebrate the 28th.
Although their shared party is on the 2nd this year since it’s a Saturday.
My sister-in-law was born on Feb 29th. She celebrates on the 28th, and during leap year accepts congratulations on both days :)
The romans made leap day Feburary 24th, and renumbered the days following that. So you are not asking the right question.
On the 90’s TV show Wings, there was a character, Roy Biggens, whose birthday was on Feb 29th, and his parents were dicks, so they only let him celebrate on Feb 29th. So, in the show when he was turning 40 years old he had a 10th birthday party with all the shit a 10-year-old would want.
