People also turn 1 year old the day before their birthday. Like you said a babies first birthday is the start of their second year. Meaning you can legally purchase alcohol the day before your 21st or 18th birthday depending on your local laws.
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That doesn't sound right to me. Discounting leap years, you should turn 1 year old on your first birthday at the time of your birth (or considering the existence of leap years, 6 hours later than that, either the day of or the day before, depending).
It might be a state by state, country by country thing. I know in Virginia it is the day before your 21at birthday based off some court case explaining the 365 days = a year thing.
https://www.abc.virginia.gov/licenses/retail-resources/preventing-underage-sales
When does a person reach their 21st birthday? The attorney general's office has opined that a person attains his/her next year of age on the day prior to his/her birthday. (1963 Va. AG LEXIS 215; 1962-1963 Op. Atty Gen. Va. 87)
Mind blown.
ngl, I have spent way too much time thinking about those very points 😅
Trust me, I did too. I got so lost in the puzzle than the shower ran cold.
well yeah years don’t have birthdays. Assuming year one was 1 and not 0 and age goes from 0 months to 1 year in the first year.
If year 1 was relabeled 0 then that would make centuries more logical. But probably there would be illogical side effects that I'm having trouble imagining right now.
my granfather was born in 1899 and wanted to make it to 2000 to be alive in three centuries. No one wanted to correct him. He did not make it though but he got close.
Arrays start at 0. Counting starts at 1.
I'm just high enough to wonder if this is somehow deeply revealing of human psychology.
I've heard about the "Korean age" where everyone is 1 at birth and gains a year at the same time on New Year's. Seems wacky until you think of it as how many calendar years you've been alive for. I mean, it's still odd but not as bad
Indeed! And it gets even weirder:
A person is allowed tobacco and alcohol if it is after January 1 of the year one turns 19 (post-birth age). This is the "year age", which is basically (Korean age – 1), or when a person's Korean age is 20.
Ha! Thanx for the insight.