For those celebrating their 21st birthday today...
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Birthdays are counter intuitive: the odds of two people in a group of 23 sharing the same birthday are better than 50-50 ... Birthday paradox[^] I've forgotten most the the statistics I used to know, but I'd say a very similar method would apply to leap kids. And birthdays aren't evenly distributed (although the distribution does vary depending on culture: Western "likely to conceive" days are different from Chinese ones). In the northern hemisphere for example, you get more children conceived between October and January (as it's cold and wet outside ...) to give more birthdays between July and October.
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I was born on the 2nd of August, exactly 33 years before my father was born.
The first sentence of that link reads oddly to say the least.
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I was born on the 2nd of August, exactly 33 years before my father was born.
The first sentence of that link reads oddly to say the least.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
I thought all bloggers were given a time machine? Did you not submit a Form 125/AC/TM/776(a) to the Mekon?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I thought all bloggers were given a time machine? Did you not submit a Form 125/AC/TM/776(a) to the Mekon?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
What!? I'm always the last to know!:mad:
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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What was it like, being a WWII baby? :)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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The idea is that, being born on February 29th, you only have a birthday once every 4 years...and so you get older at a pace of 1/4th of everybody else. Someone born on February 29th 1940 would only be "21" today... Ok, I'm done mansplaining.
Actually you get older at the same rate as anyone else, but you only get 1/4 of the parties. Alternatively your lifespan is only a quarter of those born in a "normal" year and you can expect to be an ex-you before you reach 22. Either way, it seems a bum deal to me.
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Actually you get older at the same rate as anyone else, but you only get 1/4 of the parties. Alternatively your lifespan is only a quarter of those born in a "normal" year and you can expect to be an ex-you before you reach 22. Either way, it seems a bum deal to me.
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Realistically it's more about bragging rights than anything else. Now imagine twins being born on a February 29th.
Worst case: Twins born 29 Feb 23:45 and 01 Mar 00:15 (or 28 Feb 23:45 and 29 Feb 00:15) You can get a similar effect when Daylight Saving Ends (or Starts - I am never sure which way they go). You could have the eldest one born at 01:45, then clocks go back and the younger one is born at 01:30 but both have the same birthday.
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Worst case: Twins born 29 Feb 23:45 and 01 Mar 00:15 (or 28 Feb 23:45 and 29 Feb 00:15) You can get a similar effect when Daylight Saving Ends (or Starts - I am never sure which way they go). You could have the eldest one born at 01:45, then clocks go back and the younger one is born at 01:30 but both have the same birthday.
Long ago (i.e. pre-URL) I read a similar story about a married couple who celebrated his and her wedding day on two different dates. During WW2 they were engaged, but he was called for war service before they had had an opportunity to arrange a marriage. They both feared that he might be lost in a battle, and if that happened they would want to be married. So they had a marriage over military radio: She went to the nearest military camp, with her priest, and called up the station where the groom was located, where he had an army priest available, and they gave their "I do!" over the radio. The thing was, the groom was stationed in the Pacific, across the date line. So although they were married at the same GMT time, the date was different for the two. The story as I heard it didn't reveal whether their marriage certificate stated one, the other or both dates, only that the groom returned safely home, and every year thereafter they celebrated for two days, one day for her and one day for him.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Worst case: Twins born 29 Feb 23:45 and 01 Mar 00:15 (or 28 Feb 23:45 and 29 Feb 00:15) You can get a similar effect when Daylight Saving Ends (or Starts - I am never sure which way they go). You could have the eldest one born at 01:45, then clocks go back and the younger one is born at 01:30 but both have the same birthday.
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jsc42 wrote:
You could have the eldest one born at 01:45, then clocks go back and the younger one is born at 01:30 but both have the same birthday.
...and the youngest can claim to be the oldest...? :-)
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Long ago (i.e. pre-URL) I read a similar story about a married couple who celebrated his and her wedding day on two different dates. During WW2 they were engaged, but he was called for war service before they had had an opportunity to arrange a marriage. They both feared that he might be lost in a battle, and if that happened they would want to be married. So they had a marriage over military radio: She went to the nearest military camp, with her priest, and called up the station where the groom was located, where he had an army priest available, and they gave their "I do!" over the radio. The thing was, the groom was stationed in the Pacific, across the date line. So although they were married at the same GMT time, the date was different for the two. The story as I heard it didn't reveal whether their marriage certificate stated one, the other or both dates, only that the groom returned safely home, and every year thereafter they celebrated for two days, one day for her and one day for him.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
Conventionally there would only be one wedding registered, hence one wedding certificate which would normally show the date where it was registered.
