How do those with a February 29th birthday celebrate?
When do leap-day babies celebrate their birthdays? 09-Feb-1996 Dear Cecil: I have always wondered what people do who are born on leap day, February 29. Obviously they age each year, but do they celebrate it on the 28th or the 1st? And when their actual birth date does come around, do they have a really huge bash to make up for lost time? –Kristin, Los Angeles Dear Kristin: My assistant Little Ed explained this in his book Know It All, so you know it can’t be that complicated. What you celebrate on your birthday isn’t the annual arrival of your birth date; it’s the fact that you’re one year older. One year = one complete revolution by the earth around the sun = 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. To figure the right day to celebrate your birthday, you add 365 and one-quarter days to the hour of your birth. Suppose you were born February 29, 1972 at 10 PM. Then 365 and one-quarter days went by and behold, the first anniversary of your birth hour came on March 1, 1973, at abou
