what if ur born on a leap year?

Question

like it happens every 4 years right so every 4 year you turn 1 year older right? so if 2 leap years i would be 2 not 8 right well that was just a example so what happens?

Answer 1

You would still be a year older. Most people celebrate on the first of March in the years there is no Feb. 29.

Answer 2

You would have to choose to celebrate your birthday on either February 29 or March 1. You still get older every year. If I was born in a leap year, I'd have a BIG party every 4 years!

Answer 3

People with Leap Day birthdays usually celebrate their birthday on 2/28 or 3/1 on the other years, and some even celebrate it both days :) I have heard also of Leap Day people who celebrate a sweet 16 birthday when they turn 64 :)

Answer 4

Not true - it would only mean your birth date would come around every 4 years...you still have aged 4 years. From 1990 - 1998 you would only experience 2 leap years, and 2 birthdays, for example, but you would have lived 8 years.

Answer 5

A person born on 29 February 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 29 February 1980 would have legally reached 18 years old on 28 February 1998.

“ If a period fixed by weeks, months, and years does not commence from the beginning of a week, month, or year, it ends with the ending of the day which proceeds the day of the last week, month, or year which corresponds to that on which it began to commence.　But if there is no corresponding day in the last month, the period ends with the ending of the last day of the last month.[6] ”

Many places (using drinking age of 21) have signs saying that if you were born after today's date 21 years ago, you are not of legal age; this causes people with Feb. 29 birthday to have to use March 1 as their birthday in this situation, because age 21 is reached in a nonleap year.

Answer 6

A very good friend of mine was born on a leap year. She celebrates every year on the 1st of March. But on her actual 'birthday' every 4 years she really celebrates with a nice big family reunion party.

side note: I go to Hallmark every year for her and buy her a leap year birthday card: yes, that's right, they have them and they are quite cute!

Answer 7

Well you would turn the next year. Say your birthday was Feb 29, 2007 (If this year is a leap year, is it?) then next year, you wouldn't necessarily have a birthday but on March 1, 2008, you'd be a year older. Age isn't necessarily calculated by how many birthdays have occured but rather how many days have occured since your birth. Would be very difficult to celebrate your baby's birthday.

Answer 8

If there is no February 29th for a year, it means your birthday will be celebrated on March 1. So every 4 years, you will still be 4 years old like everyone else born 4 years ago.

Answer 9

I happen to have a birthday on Leap Day and although I was born in the morning, I celebrate my birthday on March 1st. Legally, I didn't turn 21 until March 1st. It's a pretty cool phenomenon and fun to tell people that "I'm five!"

Answer 10

My uncle was born on a leap year, they celebrated his b'day on March 1 and he turned a year older every year just like everyone else.