People born on Leap Day, do you celebrate your birthday on February 28th, February 29th, or March 1st?

3 years ago by TheImpressiveX to c/asklemmy

Also, how would that work on things like birth certificates?

RoquetteQueen 83 points 3 years ago

I feel like celebrating on March 1st when it's not a leap year makes the most sense. If someone was born on February 29, then their birthday is the day after February 28.

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nudnyekscentryk 97 points 3 years ago

I feel like celebrating on February 28th when it's not a leap year makes the most sense. If someone was born on February 29, then their birthday is the day before March 1.

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nrezcm 38 points 3 years ago

I feel like celebrating only on February 29th during a leap year makes the most sense. If someone was born on February 29, then that's their birthday and their rate of aging is slowed by %80.

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Rivalarrival 19 points 3 years ago

Your 80% claim doesn't account for people who live through a year divisible by 100 but not 400.

Children born today could feasibly turn 18 in 2096, but won't celebrate their 19th birthday in 2100. They'll turn 19 in 2104.

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CalcProgrammer1 12 points 3 years ago

If their birthday is really % 80 then they reset to a newborn after age 79.

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nilloc 2 points 3 years ago

Username checks out, gottem with the modulo.

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yads 10 points 3 years ago

Think about what your age is on Feb 28 and March 1 on non leap years.

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SeabassDan 3 points 3 years ago

A year, basically, since you were born after the 28th but also before the 1st, so the next year before the first would already be a year again. Mar 1st would be a year and a day, technically.

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Notyou 4 points 3 years ago

If you want to argue for celebrating on the 28th, I would argue that you are actually 1 year older the day before your birthday. That is why you can buy alcohol the day before you turn 21. At least where I live.

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Chozo 7 points 3 years ago

Or it's the day before March 1.

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Bearlydave 72 points 3 years ago

Turned 13 today. I complain that my wife only buys me a present every four years. She says if I keep saying that, it may come true. Also, at work, I tell them to excuse my behavior, I'm just acting my age.

As far as 28th vs March 1st, well, I celebrate both days. If I'm getting scammed out of birthdays three out of four years, I'm taking an extra day on those off years!

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Tyfud 21 points 3 years ago
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BonesOfTheMoon 6 points 3 years ago

Does your wife know you're 13?

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Candelestine 72 points 3 years ago

Feb 29th. I'm 7 now.

j/k

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slazer2au 59 points 3 years ago

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buycurious 25 points 3 years ago path: 0 8005170 8006222 8006294, hotness: undefined, score: 25, children: 5
Blizzard 21 points 3 years ago

Is that you?

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moosetwin 10 points 3 years ago

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Wanderer 2 points 3 years ago

Are you from the Blizzard gaming forums?

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grue 2 points 3 years ago path: 0 8005170 8006222 8006294 8006675 8006810, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 1
ramble81 15 points 3 years ago

Wow, he’s probably older than his target now.

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Chozo 16 points 3 years ago

That's generally how it works, yes.

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troistigrestristes 11 points 3 years ago

holy fUCK that’s a proper use of pedobear, I feel like i’m in the 2010’s again

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SeabassDan 6 points 3 years ago

Man, I never realized how big that foot was.

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Dalek_Thal 5 points 3 years ago

Fuck, I definitely drank too much, how the fuck did it cycle back to 2008?

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slazer2au 4 points 3 years ago

Who said we left mate?

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manuallybreathing 2 points 3 years ago

be real cool if you weren't making a funny little joke about pedophiles there, mate

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mercano 48 points 3 years ago

Related question is when does the government celebrate your birthday. Sure, you can go apply for your drivers license on your 16th birthday on February 29, but your 18th and 21st birthdays aren’t on leap years. When can you get your first legal drink? (I’m assuming March 1st, as the bars don’t want to risk serving you a day early.)

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ArmoredThirteen 22 points 3 years ago

Idk about other governments but the US seems to be "after the 28th", so you can drink on March 1st

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sunbeam60 4 points 3 years ago

I think it’s the going solution pretty much everywhere.

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RavenFellBlade 47 points 3 years ago

My friend in grammar school had a Leap Day birthday and his parents' solution was that his birthday was celebrated "the day after February 28th".

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Railison 17 points 3 years ago

In my country that’s the legal definition of February 29. So if it’s not a leap year, February 29 is March 1.

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NABDad 33 points 3 years ago

On the 90's TV show Wings, there was a character, Roy Biggens, whose birthday was on Feb 29th, and his parents were dicks, so they only let him celebrate on Feb 29th. So, in the show when he was turning 40 years old he had a 10th birthday party with all the shit a 10-year-old would want.

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governorkeagan 26 points 3 years ago

I went to high school with twins born on the 29th. If I remember correct they celebrated on the 28th.

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Carnelian 62 points 3 years ago

One should have taken the 28th while the other took the 1st

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linearchaos 29 points 3 years ago

They could have picked whatever they want parents are still only throw'n one party

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SidewaysHighways 14 points 3 years ago

Close enough to Xmas, just lump it in with that

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linearchaos 6 points 3 years ago

Funny that, my kid just got his birthday / Christmas presents last week from fam

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Grabthar 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, and it's gonna be on the Saturday after no matter what day that turns out to be.

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ozoned 20 points 3 years ago

Wife and I just had this conversation about drinking in the US. Legal drinking age is 21. So if you're born Feb 29th, can you drink on the 28th? No. If your birthday is January 2nd, you can't drink on January 1st. Only makes sense to me that it'd be March 1st, but I'm born in Dec, so not really my choice or opinion that matters. :-D Just saying.

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SomeoneElse 13 points 3 years ago

I have two goddaughters, born 4 years apart. Each were due on 29th Feb, both arrived on the 1st March. I’m still disappointed by their lateness.

But in both cases the parents had decided to celebrate on the 1st of March on non-leap years, had they arrived on their due dates.

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southsamurai 13 points 3 years ago

I dunno, but it's only every four years that I can give my dad his present on his birthday.

This year I saved up and got him some Johnnie Walker blue lol.

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Thavron 13 points 3 years ago

I don't know but I'd assume that the birth certificate just states the date of your birth. It is an actual date, just one that doesn't occur annually.

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ramble81 5 points 3 years ago

So then I’d be curious. Does their drivers license show it expiring on the 28th or 1st?

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Thavron 11 points 3 years ago

My driver's license (Dutch) doesn't expire on my birthday but 10 years after the date it was issued. If it were issued on the 29th of februari, it would expire on March first since it would be valid on the 28th but not on the 1st.

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ramble81 3 points 3 years ago

Most in America expire on your birthday in X number of years even if the date of issue is a different day.

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Thavron 9 points 3 years ago

Weird.

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azulavoir 10 points 3 years ago

If I were the one, I'd celebrate 2/28 evening and 3/1 morning

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Trollivier 9 points 3 years ago

2/28 evening UNTIL 3/1 morning.

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ShouldIHaveFun 2 points 3 years ago

This makes for a long celebration on leap years!

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TH1NKTHRICE 7 points 3 years ago

Most divided by celebrating 28th / 1st, few celebrate at midnight between, few celebrate both (Vox 2016)

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Resol 5 points 3 years ago

I know a musician born on 29 February (you might know her for her contributions to the soundtracks of Celeste and Minecraft to name two), and as far as I know, she celebrates it on 1 March... in the case of a non-leap year.

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bluGill 1 point 3 years ago

The romans made leap day Feburary 24th, and renumbered the days following that. So you are not asking the right question.

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