Microw@lemm.ee to Anniversaries: X years ago today@feddit.nlEnglish · 2 days 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-up1192arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1188arrow-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.scienceMicrow@lemm.ee to Anniversaries: X years ago today@feddit.nlEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareerrer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoMmm maybe not if there is some confusion because of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning Often results in quoted ages/birth years being off by one.
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days 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-squareerrer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day 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-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 hours agoseems like they just tapped the wrong number, they replied with “oops”.
Mmm maybe not if there is some confusion because of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
Often results in quoted ages/birth years being off by one.
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”.