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AIBU?

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To think this girl won't turn 18 tomorrow?

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CrohnicallyFarting · 27/02/2014 19:53

I was listening to the radio, and they were wishing a happy birthday to someone who is celebrating their 18th birthday tomorrow (28th Feb).

The thing is, she was born on Feb 29th. Obviously, this year isn't a leap year, so she can't celebrate her actual birth date. But I can't help thinking she's celebrating a day early and she should actually have 1st March as her 'birthday' in non-leap years.

I just have this vision of the poor girl going out for a few drinks tomorrow to celebrate as is customary for people turning 18, only for her to get IDed and turned away for not actually being 18 yet.

So AIBU or is she?

OP posts:

rootypig · 27/02/2014 19:54

You care about this a lot more than is reasonable!

Tiredemma · 27/02/2014 19:54

I went to school with a girl who was born on the 29th Feb- she celebrated on thee 28th.

BillyNotQuiteNoMates · 27/02/2014 19:54

Ooh, good point - (being mean, that would be quite funny! [evil grin])
My DN was born on February 29th as well, will have to remember that for when he is older!

TravelinColour · 27/02/2014 19:54

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IneedAwittierNickname · 27/02/2014 19:56

My friend celebrates on the 28th too. Although jokes that he is younger then his dc.
(he will be 11 tomorrow, his dc are 18, 16 and 15)

Dwerf · 27/02/2014 19:57

If that was my birthday I would celebrate it on both Feb 28th and March 1st even non-leap year-year, but in this case, I think I'd give it the extra day just to make sure. So I guess you're right. Although some people (ncluding barstaff may think differently.

VivaLeBeaver · 27/02/2014 19:57

It would be a hard hearted bar person who turns them away but guess they're strict these days. Technically I think you're right.

I went to primary school with someone born on feb 29th. I can remember her sobbing one year as she said she wasn't having a proper birthday.

kelper · 27/02/2014 19:58

My grandma was born on feb 29th, my mum said she used to celebrate her birthday on March first the other three years :)

Catsmamma · 27/02/2014 20:01

won't their birthdays creep??

so feb 29th born and then 365 days later is march 1st age one another 365 for and two and three, all March 1st.

oh no....

back to feb 29th for four

so yes, she isn't 18 until march 1st.

MaureenMLove · 27/02/2014 20:03

I don't think it's the barman being hard hearted actually, but more about the law and his license, as according to her ID, she isn't 18!

Let's have visions of her, having a nice family meal tomorrow night and getting rat arsed with her mates on Saturday instead!

evertonmint · 27/02/2014 20:04

But if she's still out at midnight she'll miraculously be 18 and one day! She might just need to drink lemonade until 12

ReadyToPopAndFresh · 27/02/2014 20:04

Leap year birthdays must be shit :(

YANBU op, March 1st she'll be 18.

BusinessUnusual · 27/02/2014 20:05

Did anyone else find the title threatening? Like OP was about to order a hit?

FabBakerGirl · 27/02/2014 20:05

Well, she'd like me then if she had chosen March 1st since I have been convinced it was March 1st all day today. .

swooosh · 27/02/2014 20:05

Its MY birthday tomorrow. (really the 29th) I celebrate the 28th AND the 1st

Legally on their 18th birthday a leap year baby can turn 18 on the 28th. In the US it's the 1st however..

IneedAwittierNickname · 27/02/2014 20:07

BusinessUnusual

Did anyone else find the title threatening? Like OP was about to order a hit?

Yep

KissesBreakingWave · 27/02/2014 20:08

No, if you were born on the 29th, you turn a new age on the 28th.

You are x years old when you've completed x years, and that completion happens the last day of your x-th year. Legally, at the first moment of that day (if you wait until your actual 18th birthday to go to the pub you're doing yourself out of a full day of legal drinking, although while this is the precise working of the relevant law, good luck persuading the bar staff....)

So your xth birthday is actually the first day of your x+1th year. You 'turned' that age the day before.

BusinessUnusual · 27/02/2014 20:10

SavoyCabbage · 27/02/2014 20:11

My dd has the same birthday as her best friend but her best friend is technically a day older as she was born in Australia and my dd in the uk. If dd had been born here, her birthday would have been the 5th, not the 4th.

Every time is is one of our birthdays, I think to myself that it is not really because of the time difference.

DonnaDishwater · 27/02/2014 20:11

Someone who is born on the 29th Feb doesn't officially turn 18 until 72 years after they are born, on their eighteenth birthday!

MsVestibule · 27/02/2014 20:12

business I don't very often actually laugh out loud at anything on MN, but I did at your comment!!! Yes, very menacing, a la Goodfellas.

IneedAwittierNickname · 27/02/2014 20:14

Really kisses? I can't see how that works

Surely if I was born on the 1st of January, I would be a year old at the end of the day on 31st December?

Or.maybe I'm thick?

HadABadDay2014 · 27/02/2014 20:16

You have me thinking.

Perhaps it should be based on time born 12 midnight to 12 midday = 28th February, 12 midday to 12 midnight = 1st march

Really have no answers if born dead on noon.

JeanSeberg · 27/02/2014 20:16

Pirates of Penzance anybody?

KissesBreakingWave · 27/02/2014 20:39

INeed, If you're born on the 1st January, you're a year old at the beginning of the 31st December following, legally. That which happens on a day, unless specified otherwise, happens at the first moment of that day. The 1st January following that is the first day of your second year.

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