Birth Dates: I thought myself into a problem

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:48 pm

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...

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:54 pm

Dude... woah... that's actually pretty cool!

hmmm, quite a delimma though!

Postby **Ingemar** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:57 pm

Celebrate it on the same day you always have. Problem solved.

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:00 pm

But, but... but... Eh... *sizzle*

Postby **Danyasaur** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:12 pm

dude. . . that'd fry my brain @_@;;

Website · Postby **Shadowchild** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:14 pm

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. ^-^

Postby **agasfas** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:27 pm

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.

Postby **Mr. SmartyPants** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:41 pm

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

Postby **Slater** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:47 pm

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.

Postby **TheMelodyMaker** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 2:35 pm

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. :lol:

)

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 3:43 pm

*sizzle* Oh okay... I'll do that.

Postby **Uriah** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:19 pm

I think you should just go all out and declare every day your birthday.

Postby **the_lizardqueen** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:07 pm

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 :lol:

Postby **Arbre** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:30 pm

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

Postby **Destroyer2000** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:47 pm

...when did you move? I thought you were moving to north California, not to another state.

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:39 am

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. ...

Postby **Doubleshadow** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:26 am

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. ^^

Postby **termyt** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:40 am

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.

Iâ€™d hate for the government to start tracking it that way, though.

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:03 pm

YES! I knew it! Heh. Hoo boy...

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:22 pm

YOUR bi

Postby **Syaoran** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:08 pm

Brain Over load. @_@

Postby **the_lizardqueen** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 8:31 pm

*smiles and nods like she knows what everyone else is talking about, when really, her brain ran away screaming a couplea hours ago*

Postby **Kura Ookami** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:07 am

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.

Postby **Shao Feng-Li** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:57 am

Volt? "Corrent?"

But technicalities matter... Eh... So technicly i'm right, but... Okay.

Postby **termyt** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:12 am

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.

Postby **Noeru1992** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:13 am

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

Postby **mastersquirrel** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:36 am

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.

Postby **Kura Ookami** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:35 am

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. Want to get younger? Travel around the world with us and you'll get younger automatically or for those who want to get older you can do that as well. Travel with us!

Postby **Kami** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:25 am

.... My birthday is on December the 5th. <_<......

-Kami

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