Yes, the day of your birth, i.e., your birthday should be zero.

But it's actually twelve. Check it out.

Not being a pain or anything. Your birthday when you're born can't be one year old. You're not one year old yet. Maybe they will change that when they go to metric time .
Years are no different than hours on a watch, the first hour does not start at one, it takes an hour to do so.

You can't be one year old until you're one year old, but the day you're born is your birthday, and it is your first birthday.

I had a scratch pad around here with my calculations but I think a squirrel got in my house and carried it off. Little bastards.

True, but your first birthday would come a year after you were born. If your first birthday is one, then a year from now you would be two. The first birthday would signify that you are one year old.

No, it's the day you're born. When you turn one year old, you are celebrating the day of your birth and we call it your first birthday but it's not.





Found my scratch pad. Apologies to the squirrels. Little bastards

First birthday should be zero then? It's just the way time is. When you are one year old, that means you were born one year ago. No other practical way to measure it or it would have been done already.

Because we use 0-based indexing, like in C, not 1-based indexing, like in FORTRAN.

Along a similar line, if Super Bowl 1 was in 1967, how is it that Super Bowl 59 was this year? It ain't right. It's that damned new math.

What does being born on Feb 29th do to the equation?

Did we consider that…

Jack Benny was 39. Many times.

If you build a factory that stamps out ball bearings, wouldn't the day you start manufacturing be the 'founding anniversary'?

That is what they called it at NGK.

When Mrs DF turned 40 she had a hard time with it. I told her it’s not so bad. It’s like being married to two 20 year olds. I did not get the anticipated response…..

Jesus Christ died on Friday, and on the third day, Sunday, he arose.

It might be you first birthday, but it doesn’t count because you don’t get cake.

Each successive birthday should instead be called the anniversary of your birthday, just like you say it's your wedding anniversary and not your wedding day.

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Originally posted by Muddflap:

It might be you first birthday, but it doesn’t count because you don’t get cake.

If you did get cake, how many candles would be on it?

Lazy language is the problem.
That comes from calling it your first birthday instead of the correct term, the first anniversary of your birthday.

Call it nitpicking, but the day you are born is your birth day.