Metric Birthday
I first heard of the concept of a metric birthday from Craig Mercer, a 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)
Please enter your birthday to calculate your metric age.
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By Mark Dellenbaugh, September 21, 2009 @ 3:17 pm
Thanks for this calculator. Years ago I had calculated the metric birthday of my wife and 3 kids just for grins and had forgot about the concept until a few days ago. Knowing that my youngest must be approaching his 1000k day I sought out a site that would make the re-calculation easier than what I did last time. (You did factor in all the leap day variations I’m sure, right?)
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By Mark Dellenbaugh, September 21, 2009 @ 3:34 pm
Make that my youngest’s 1000 day OR 1k day. I’m not that old!
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By Kelvin Hartnall, September 21, 2009 @ 4:22 pm
Hi Mark, glad you enjoyed the metric birthday calculation. Yes, the calculator does factor in all leap year day variations since it uses the javascript date function that runs in your browser.
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By Neale Jackson, November 17, 2009 @ 6:18 pm
I celebrated metric birthdays throughout my partying years, and there was a site I used back then to calculate it, can’t remember it though ( too many birthdays since). Intruiged at your interest in shares, I would be delighted for the opprtunity to discuss “options”
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By Ian, December 23, 2009 @ 3:29 pm
Hi Kelvin, I was thinking the same random thought about my daughters ‘metric age’ as I was feeding her a bottle tonight. I then created a quick spreadsheet to calculate her metric birthdays – she is 1,000 days old in 181 days time! I thought what a cool idea – alongside years, days are the only real constant – as months, hours, minutes and seconds are what we have created to ‘measure’ time. I then checked to see if anyone had created a site for this – and voila I stumbled on yours. Very cool – but now thinking about what to do with it! Ian
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