@[email protected] to Anniversaries: X years ago [email protected]English • 1 month agoOn this day in 1986: Li Wenliang was born, one of the first Chinese doctors to sound the alarm on Covid19 and to die from the disease.static.mstdn.scienceimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1196arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1192arrow-down1imageOn this day in 1986: Li Wenliang was born, one of the first Chinese doctors to sound the alarm on Covid19 and to die from the disease.static.mstdn.science@[email protected] to Anniversaries: X years ago [email protected]English • 1 month agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoit changes the age, but not the date of birth. If you were Chinese and born October 3rd 1985, on October 3rd of 1995, you would be 11, because on the day of your birth you are 1 years old. in France, you’d be 10 because on the day of your birth you’re 0 years old.
minus-square@errerlinkEnglish2•1 month agoI’m aware. The point is whoever wrote the article may have seen “39 years old” and interpreted that as either 1985 or 1986.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoseems like they just tapped the wrong number, they replied with “oops”.
it changes the age, but not the date of birth.
If you were Chinese and born October 3rd 1985, on October 3rd of 1995, you would be 11, because on the day of your birth you are 1 years old.
in France, you’d be 10 because on the day of your birth you’re 0 years old.
I’m aware. The point is whoever wrote the article may have seen “39 years old” and interpreted that as either 1985 or 1986.
seems like they just tapped the wrong number, they replied with “oops”.