Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for court

Re:Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for ... by mehrdadn on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:23AM (#17976945)

It'd seem like we could resolve this by determining if the {mean # of days in a year} times 18 = 6574.365 days had passed or not?

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Re:Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for ... by da_murvel on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:04AM (#17977122)

Exactly my thought. I don't know why anyone would use months or years as a measurement in legal and official terms, considering the variation of number of days they have.

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Re:Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for ... by frgewut on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:03AM (#17977107)

But then your birthday date would fluctuate.

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Re:Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for ... by mehrdadn on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:06AM (#17977127)

I meant for the purposes of settling this issue, not for all legal calculations based on birthdays.

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Re:Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for ... by maccard on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:18AM (#17977176)

But then you're in a funny gray area of being legally an adult for some considerations, but not others.

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Re:Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for ... by mehrdadn on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:23AM (#17977192)

Er, that's not what I meant. By "this issue" I meant leap days. If there are no leap days causing issues then you use the normal calculation. If you're trying to figure out stop or end times on a leap day then you use this. It'd still be used for all considerations, so being legal age in all respects would be the same for the same person. The only "problem" is it discriminates by like 1 day for different people which hopefully we can still sleep soundly with.

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