So, when you're one year old, it's your second birthday. If the day you're born is not your birthday, then, what?

You couldn’t come with a theory that lowers the count?

I think we celebrate the anniversary of the day of our birth. So you're 1st birthday is your first anniversary of the day of your birth.

Yes, it's your second birthday, but you are 1 year old.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
So, when you're one year old, it's your second birthday. If the day you're born is not your birthday, then, what?

They do this in Asia. In South Korea they counted you as "1" at birth, then "2" after the lunar new year, then "3" after another year. I believe they have changed to how we count age. Most women would rather have a lower numerical age, so there you go.

Hmmm.

Only if you were there. (checks notes) Yup. That's right!

The same established line of thought was from those who decided to celebrate the new millennium before 2001 only because it would sell more beer.

Yes, Asians do that, start with one year of age right out of the box so to speak. My Vietnamese family all are, in our way of counting, a year older than they claim to be.

But that may be changing-my great grandchildren, all six of them and especially the 4 in elementary school, count their age like we do.

My oldest grandson told me he turned 40 a month ago on his birthday (I sent a card and a gift-never mentioned age) but I got no idea if he's really an old feller of 40 or just a kid of 39.

Bob

Yes we do. My grandparents would always do that we are age 1 when born. It got confusing when I got to kindergarten and had to learn English. I kept telling people I was older.

It's really the first anniversary of your day of birth.
Sort of like 1 AM starts the second hour of the day, not 12 midnight.
Kind of a chicken or the egg sort of thing.

On the plus column, it might do a away with the excessive measuring of youngsters age in months.

I'm 744 months old myself.

It used to be Hebrew tradition to celebrate the first birthday 3 months after birth. Some Bible scholars suggest Jesus was actually born in September, and conceived in December.

Logical. So I have 6X birthdays, but am 6X-1 years old.

Unless I am Korean, where I am Y years old. My Korean neighbor said you zero out at 60 years old, and start over.

But what about those folks born on February 29 in Leap Years? How many birthdays have they had then ? Trying to work that out is a conundrum enough and gives one a headache !!!

What we call your "birthday" is actually the anniversary of the date you were born on. We're just too lazy to say "Tomorrow is the anniversary of my birthday." Just like the 20th century was the 1900's. Off by one.

My dad brings this up at family partys from time to time and this is my explanation to him.

At your birth you are not one day old, your not even an hour old. After 24 hours from your birth you are one day old, after 365 days from birth you are 1 year old and we celebrate the first anniversary of your birth then again every year after.

Open a can of worms, thou didst.

That number 12 you see on a analog watch should be number one.

It should be zero

So, the day you are born should be zero also .