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Birth Dates: I thought myself into a problem
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:48 pm
by Shao Feng-Li
I thought up a delima for myself. I was born December 4th at 9:56 PM. THat means, in New York my birth happend at December 5 12:56 AM. So that would mean my birthday is now December 5th, since I live out here, right? Then I celebrate it on the 5th?
Sounds silly, I know. Maybe even stupid, but...
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:54 pm
by Mr. SmartyPants
Dude... woah... that's actually pretty cool!
hmmm, quite a delimma though!
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:57 pm
by Ingemar
Celebrate it on the same day you always have. Problem solved.
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:00 pm
by Shao Feng-Li
But, but... but... Eh... *sizzle*
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:12 pm
by Danyasaur
dude. . . that'd fry my brain @_@;;
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:14 pm
by Shadowchild
dude that means that ur b day is right before mine cuz i was born on the 6th of december. coolio i know one other person born on the same day as you. ^-^
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:27 pm
by agasfas
No the 4th. Go by what time zone you where born in whether you moved or not. Just because you skip a few time zone doesn't take the fact away you were born at 9:56 pm where you were at.
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:41 pm
by Mr. SmartyPants
agasfas wrote:No the 4th. Go by what time zone you where born in whether you moved or not. Just because you skip a few time zone doesn't take the fact away you were born at 9:56 pm where you were at.
agasfas is wise!
One of my favorite middleschool teachers was born on february 29th...
so he's like... only 9 or something
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:47 pm
by Slater
if you're born on Feb. 29, on non leapyears you count your Bday as March 1, because Feb 29 and Mar 1 are the same number of days away from the new year.
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:35 pm
by TheMelodyMaker
agasfas wrote:No the 4th. Go by what time zone you where born in whether you moved or not. Just because you skip a few time zone doesn't take the fact away you were born at 9:56 pm where you were at.
*nodnod* That makes sense; you don't suddenly become three hours younger simply by moving across a few time zones, right? ^_^ (Slightly off topic: If that were possible, I bet more people would try it.
)
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:43 pm
by Shao Feng-Li
*sizzle* Oh okay... I'll do that.
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:19 pm
by Uriah
I think you should just go all out and declare every day your birthday.
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:07 pm
by the_lizardqueen
Wow...I have a habit of over-thinking things, but I think you've officially out-over-thought me. I'm very confuzzled, but I think I'll stake my sanity on Agasfas' theory, it seems to make sense
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:30 pm
by Arbre
Shao Feng-Li wrote:I thought up a delima for myself. I was born December 4th at 9:56 PM. THat means, in New York my birth happend at December 5 12:56 AM. So that would mean my birthday is now December 5th, since I live out here, right? Then I celebrate it on the 5th?
Sounds silly, I know. Maybe even stupid, but...
Well, a birthdate is to measure exactly how old YOU are. Technically maybe you should be moving the time and even date of your celebration around if you want to be accurate.
But just keep the birthdate the same.
I was born at 2:10 in the morning, but I'm not gonna wake my family up to celebrate then, ya know? ^^;
It's not like birthdays NEED to be completely accurate in that situation with the timezones. Store away the info for your amusement, though. =p
PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:47 pm
by Destroyer2000
...when did you move? I thought you were moving to north California, not to another state.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:39 am
by Shao Feng-Li
Nope, Destroyer. I didn't end up moving north. Instead we moved 2700 miles East to New York.
So if it's December 5 12:56 AM in New York, that means It's December 4th 9:56 PM in Caifornia. THat meansa my birthday in New York is DEcember 5th 12:56. ...
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:26 am
by Doubleshadow
Your birthday is the same regardless of your techincal location time-wise. If you lived near the international date-line, you could celebrate your birthday, cross the date-line, and celebrate it again. ^^
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:40 am
by termyt
Doubleshadow wrote:Your birthday is the same regardless of your techincal location time-wise. If you lived near the international date-line, you could celebrate your birthday, cross the date-line, and celebrate it again. ^^
I actually think that's a great idea.
Interesting conundrum, to be sure. To actually honor the moment of your birth, it does indeed change with the time zones. When you were born, it was just before 1:00 AM on December 5 in New York. That is the anniversary of your birth, then.
I’d hate for the government to start tracking it that way, though.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:03 pm
by Shao Feng-Li
YES! I knew it! Heh. Hoo boy...
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:22 pm
by Fsiphskilm
YOUR bi
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:08 pm
by Syaoran
Brain Over load. @_@
PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:31 pm
by the_lizardqueen
*smiles and nods like she knows what everyone else is talking about, when really, her brain ran away screaming a couplea hours ago*
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:07 am
by Kura Ookami
So if you were born on Mercury and then moved to Earth you'd be able to celebrate your birthday more than once each earth year because one year is the time it takes for a planet to move around it's star once. Mercury takes less time to travel round the sun than earth. In fact you'd celebrate your birthday about four times per earth year. If i was born on Mercury id be about 86 years old now. Oh and if i was born on pluto id be about 0.09 years old. So I'd be about 32 days old now if i was born on pluto. This could get complicated if we ever colonise other planets.
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:57 am
by Shao Feng-Li
Volt? "Corrent?"
But technicalities matter... Eh... So technicly i'm right, but... Okay.
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:12 am
by termyt
Kura Ookami wrote:So if you were born on Mercury and then moved to Earth you'd be able to celebrate your birthday more than once each earth year because one year is the time it takes for a planet to move around it's star once. Mercury takes less time to travel round the sun than earth. In fact you'd celebrate your birthday about four times per earth year. If i was born on Mercury id be about 86 years old now. Oh and if i was born on pluto id be about 0.09 years old. So I'd be about 32 days old now if i was born on pluto. This could get complicated if we ever colonise other planets.
You're assuming 365 (24 hour) days in a plutonian year.
One day on Pluto is 153 hours and one year has 14,182 days. So, you are actually 1276 days old by the Pluto calender.
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:13 am
by Noeru1992
Volt wrote:YOUR birthday, is considered at the Time of the location where you were born.
What-ever time zone you were born in, THAT is your official birthday.
This way technicalities don't interfear,
>>> What about my Age in Mars Years?
Volt: Where you born on Mars?
>>> Nope
Volt: Problem Solved.
>>> What about my birthday in Japan? Was I born a day earlier?
Volt: Where you born in Japan?
>>> Nope
Volt: You have acheived enlightenment. You are corrent.
I was born on mars ^^!
hehe...atleast...Thats what they told me O.o
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:36 am
by mastersquirrel
Let's see... if I were born on Pluto and my age was 17 by Pluto years I'd be 4216 years ond in Earth Years.
But since I'm 17 in Earth years I am 0.0685 years old in Pluto years.... o.O
Anyway, I'd just go with the day you've always celebrated your birthday, it just makes it easier that way. Unless you want to get technical (which I usually do. Don't know why I don't now) there's not much of a reason to change it.
PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:35 am
by Kura Ookami
termyt wrote:You're assuming 365 (24 hour) days in a plutonian year.
One day on Pluto is 153 hours and one year has 14,182 days. So, you are actually 1276 days old by the Pluto calender.
Thanks for correcting my mistake temyt.
No matter how you look at it the number of houurs old i am doesnt change. The number of years and days however, depends on the planet. Anyway, Volt is correct. You dont automatically get an hour younger or older by traveling to another timezone or circling the planet would make you 24 hours younger or older depending on which way you went. I can see the advertisements already.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:25 am
by Kami
.... My birthday is on December the 5th. <_<......
-Kami