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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A baby born on Dec 31st is 1 year old, and the next day would be 2 years old ... A 2 day old baby would be considered 2 years old. Glad they decided that this was beyond odd.

[–] dotancohen 5 points 2 years ago

My daughter was born at 22:30 on December 31. In Korea she would have been considered 2 years old when she was born less than 2 hours previously.

[–] lemmein 1 points 2 years ago

Ehh, I'm sad that another country is being forced to Western standards and lose an unique part of their culture.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Too bad they didn't keep their very own system of measurement which is so much more convenient than the internationally recognized and simple system... Not looking in anybody's direction

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

babies are considered a year old on the day they’re born

Is there any useful idea behind this? That sounds completely dumb.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's just semantics. When you are born, you are in your first year of life, not your zeroth year of life. After a full year, you are one year old. Grammar varies from language to language, and sometimes one feels more natural.

Imagine everyone in English said "I'm in my 32nd year" instead of "I'm 31 years old." Now you meet a foreigner who says the opposite. Translation issues abound!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, we do the same shit with what century we are in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right. But as most people don't measure their age in centuries (yet), it isn't a problem.

I'm hoping the debate emerges when I'm in my 7th century.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You mean when you're 6 centuries old?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Exactly 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

When you are born, you are in your first year of life, not your zeroth year of life.

There are one type of person in this world. Those that understand arrays, and those that don't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Jokes on you, my religion is Fortran ;)

[–] takeda 1 points 2 years ago

I'm that one person who don't understand it.

I heard of 10 people and "binary" but this I see first time. Care to explain?

[–] Ataraxia 2 points 2 years ago

That's not a birth day. It's an inaccurate conception day and for most of it we weren't alive yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Gangnam Style! Op op op!

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