Leap year.. hmmmmmmmm

[Krystal]

hmm a post in Tri 3 made me think....

what happens if your born on a leap year.. Feb 29th.. what happens on the years when Feb 29th doesn't exist

 

[Lou]

You don't get older that year

I thought this thread was gonna be about proposing. I was ready to post and and and and

 

[Kimbo]

I was ready to post and and and and

i dont know,... would your birthday change to 1st march??

 

[Squiglet]

i went to school with someone who was born on 29th of Feb.... He used to always say stuff like you can't be mean to me I'm only 3 years old

 

[Lou]

i went to school with someone who was born on 29th of Feb.... He used to always say stuff like you can't be mean to me I'm only 3 years old

He deserved a clip round the ear for being a little smart ass I bet the kids used to say things like "er...do you still wear nappies then"? !!!!

 

[Krystal]

well i was hoping someone would have a serious answer for me

 

[Squiglet]

i went to school with someone who was born on 29th of Feb.... He used to always say stuff like you can't be mean to me I'm only 3 years old

He deserved a clip round the ear for being a little smart ass I bet the kids used to say things like "er...do you still wear nappies then"? !!!!

yup!

 

[Lou]

well i was hoping someone would have a serious answer for me

Sorry Miss Sweetcheeks

Seriously hun. I don't know?

 

[Krystal]

Never google a serious question: this is the answer

You have to wait 80 years before you can buy beer.

 

[Krystal]

ooh ooh if anyone interested:

A person born on February 29 may be called a "leapling". In common years they usually celebrate their birthdays on 28 February or 1 March.

For legal purposes, their legal birthdays depend on how different laws count time intervals. In Taiwan, for example, the legal birthday of a leapling is 28 February in common years, so a Taiwanese leapling born on February 29, 1980 would have legally reached 18 years old on February 28, 1998.

In some situations, March 1 is used as the birthday in a non-leap year since it then is the day just after February 28.

There are many instances in children's literature where a person's claim to be only a quarter of their actual age turns out to be based on counting only their leap-year birthdays. A similar device is used in the plot of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance.

 

[kimmumof2]

my dads friend was born on a leap year and he told my dad his mum said she was given a choice of either february the 28th or march 1st.

xxxxx

 

[Xena]

alschafr's birthday is feb 29th

 

[Gemma & Jake]

I think they just celebrate their birthday on the 28th of Feb or 1st March. I would hate to be born on the 29th Feb.

 

[Sarah&Braydon]

i dunno i think i would pick the 1st march another day younger haha