South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting
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Re: South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting
#2Yet another battle won in the 0 indexing vs. 1 indexing war
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Re: South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting
#4Yet another battle won in the 0 indexing vs. 1 indexing war
It just shows you how reality-denying the 1 indexers can be, going as far as calling a newborn 1 even though (if normal term) it was conceived roughly 0.75 years ago.
Re: South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting
#5Yet another battle won in the 0 indexing vs. 1 indexing war
even weirder than that, as far as I can tell, as the whole year cohort ages together on the same day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
Re: South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting
#6The article is interesting on its own, but giving it a clickbaity title goes against the HN guidelines.
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Re: South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting
#8I actually wished a change in reverse direction, the world adopting the Korean standard of age accounting for full existence, not just postpartum existence. The later feels quite arbitrary, at least for me.
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#9Ah standards. Taking all the fun out of international travel confusion.
Now if we could only get the US onto the metric system and abolish daylight saving time.
Re: South Korea adopts new law to join the international standard of age counting
#10I actually wished a change in reverse direction, the world adopting the Korean standard of age accounting for full existence, not just postpartum existence. The later feels quite arbitrary, at least for me.
You think the moment of birth is more arbitrary than trying to figure out when a clump of cells/a fetus is viable?