No, only if they were actually born at 12.00 am on 1 January, surely. I certainly didn't turn [insert age I'm turning this year ] on New Year's Day. I won't until my actual birthday, which is in April!IceMaiden wrote:Surely anybody 17 on 31.12.17 at 11.59pm is going to be 18 - and therefore legally adult - on 1.1.18 at 12:00am?
As the new millennium didn't start until 2001 — regardless of what the majority of people who follow the Gregorian calendar chose to celebrate — the statement about every child being born in the new millennium has to apply to people born on or after 1 Jan 2001, not 2000 (and therefore turning 18 some time during 2019). But as I'm losing track of what we were talking about (and am not sure I understood it in the first place anyway), I probably shouldn't keep on arguing about it...IceMaiden wrote:If it was 1.1.19 they'd be 19 and then it wouldn't work because they'd already be adults in this millennium.