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.
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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.
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
babies are considered a year old on the day they’re born
Is there any useful idea behind this? That sounds completely dumb.
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!
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.
Jokes on you, my religion is Fortran ;)
Well, you could have an array starting at zero, some old languages or pseudo code languages do that.
To be fair, we do the same shit with what century we are in.
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.
Pity. My great-grandmother died at 103. She would often declare. "I'm One hundred and three, you know. " Towards the end. I think If I had thought at the time to say. "You're in your second century" At the time. She would have taken huge pleasure is telling everyone that for her last few months.
You mean when you're 6 centuries old?
Exactly 😂
Gangnam Style! Op op op!
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