Metric Birthday
I’ve recreated my metric birthday web-page. I first heard of the concept of a metric birthday from Craig Mercer, a former flat-mate of mine in New Zealand. The concept is that we should move to the metric system for birthday calculation, with the new unit of measurement being the kiloDay:
kiloDay = 1,000 days. (abbreviated as kDay)
To calculate your own metric birthday, click here.
There are some definite advantages to a metric birthday over the traditional measurement based on the earth’s orbit around the sun:
- You feel much younger. I am only 12 kDays old. I am not even a teenager yet!
- Your birthday comes far less frequently. Well, about every 1000 / 365.26 = 2.738 earth years. My earth-year birthday currently seems to come far too often.
- Birthdays span different seasons. You don’t need to move hemisphere to enjoy a summer birthday.
- Forty really is old. Most people don’t currently make it to 40, being over 109 earth years old! That will give me some breathing space!
