Time Zones

Almost universally, one celebrates one’s birthday according to the day on which one was born. One increments one’s years of age by one at the beginning of that day – despite being anywhere up to 23 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds short of having spent that many years ex utero. So, it seems to me, my birthday in a different time zone, by such practice, should be the day it was when I was born in that timezone. Having been born in the early morning, California time, I managed to make it into the seven hour window of date-overlap (this time of year anyway – daylight savings time) between Korea time and California time. So I say it is just as much my birthday right now, in Korea, as it ever was at any time on November 28th before the actual time of my birth.

Had I been born later in the day, or, if I was currently teaching English a few time zones to the East, my birth would have been on the 29th already in my present time zone, and then, well, I just don’t know. In such cases, maybe I’d have to wait a day and celebrate on the 29th. Or maybe I just wouldn’t get a birthday that year.

What do you think?

3 Responses to “Time Zones”

  1. brother Says:

    Just wait a day and then you’ll be 100% sure that you’re 23 everywhere in the world.

  2. askory Says:

    “Just wait a day…” I’ll take that as a vote for not getting a birthday that year. The dilemma isn’t about knowing one’s age! That’s a simple matter of counting how many years, in hours rather than in days, one has managed to survive.

  3. kj Says:

    I am confused.

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