“Default” birth days
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/24
A while ago I overheard an HR conversion about birth-date spreads which went into a topic on “default” birthdays being especially common in countries where the exact day of birth didn’t matter much. I got curious, so I dug up some links:
- TIL thousands of afghans share January 1st as their birthday because they don’t know when their real birthday is.
- In Afghanistan, Jan. 1 is everyone’s birthday – The Washington Post
- July 1st : Happy birthday| Kurdish Musings
I remember a very long time ago seeing someones passport with zero as the birthday. Boy I wish I had taken a picture back then.
–jeroen
jpluimers said
Via: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JeroenPluimers/posts/J3rqQY5aTpg
Dany Marmur
My father had to choose a birthday when he came to sweden, he chose 15/3. When my brother and his spouse adopted a kid from China he hit the same birthday. Though my father’s where some 2 years earlier than actual.