Weird, possibly nit-picky question?

HappyMomAnna

I am not sure about that one but.... it's an interesting question.

I will tell you that Our daughter was born in 1998 and my husband and I were married in 1999... We adopted her in 2003.

When we were called by the State Vital Statistics office to complete the information for the finalization I was asked:
What my name was,
Where I lived,
and if I was married WHEN she was born!

So, her "amended" birth certificate has my Not Married Name on it and I lived in a completely different place then where I did when I actually became her mother...so, I suppose anything is possible?

USAF wife # 2 due in june

I didnt read your whole question i must admit, but no the childs birthday does not change. If she was born on spet 2 2000 at 1230pm it doesnt matter what time zone she is moving to she was born in that place at that time there is no changing that.

BPD Wife

My thought would be that it should stay the date on which the child was born in her country. My reasoning is that if I moved to another country in a different timezone, I wouldn't change my birthday to meet their timezone. Does that make sense?

Good luck. I'll be interested in the other answers.

noella S

It's the day and time of the country you are born in. The US gov't goes by what's on the birth certficate of the country you're born in

Kim

If asked about my son's birthday, we use the same date he was born on in Russia (no adjustment for time zone although it's 12 hours ahead of where we live now). I know several non-adoptee immigrants who were born in Europe/Asia and that's what they do as well.

However, my son (he's 8) knows about time zones, and he's happy to "claim" those extra 12 hours of birthday...so our acknowledgement of his birthday starts at noon on the day before his birthday and continues for 36 hours.

monkeykitty83

For me, it would depend on context.

Like, say I was born at 9:30 in New York. (No one actually seems to remember what time I was born, thus the weird hypothetical phrasing.) That fact doesn't change regardless of where I am, because we're talking about an event that happened at one point in time, at one location. So when talking about my actual birth many moons ago, I would not adjust for time zone-- I'd give the time it was in New York.

However, if someone was going to observe my birth time as well as birth date, I would adjust because it's an observation of a past event, not the actual event itself. So with something like that, I would go with what time it would have been in the current time zone. So my birth time would be celebrated at 1:30 in London, if I was born at 9:30 in New York.

The date of birth could go either way, but I would stick with the date in the original time zone. Which I realize totally contradicts what I said above about past versus current observance, but it just... seems right. But remember, as I said, my parents don't know my birth time, so this "seeming right" could all be based on the fact I never considered adjusting my own birth date.

I'm not actually sure how it would apply legally, but informally, that's how I would do it.

Sophie

The birthdate does not change. What the time is on one day and place there is that time whatever it is in the other place. Go by the "whatever it is" time.

Randy B

Having been deployed around the world for long periods of time and having spent too many birthdays away from the family, I always use the birthdate where the person is at the time. When I was deployed in Afghanistan and Bosnia I was there over my birthday and while, technically, it was a day early I still observed my birthday where I was. It's just easier that way I think.

Dawn R

it is the date she was born, no matter where she was. times are different all over the world, so you go by the date. i live in california and if i move to russia my birthday is still the same.

cmc

My daughter was born in the morning eastern standard time, and we are now living in India. Even when she was born we were living in california, so a different time zone than the one she was in. We flew across the country on her birthday, and saw her that evening. Every birthday I calculate when she was really born and mention it, celebrate it mentally. But we have her official birthday celebration in the local time zone (without correcting for different geographic regions).

mscrawdad

My grandson was born on Feb 13th in England, but it was the 12th here in the US. His birthday is legally the 13th and I got a real kick out of telling folks my grandson weighs this and is that long and WAS born tomorrow! The birthdate is whatever it says on the birth certificate.

BOTZ

I can't tell you as I have no idea (nobody does... except possibly the keepers of my oh-so-mysterious "sealed" birth records) what time I was born.

My mother does not know either as she was fully anesthetized during my birth. It was believed by "the establishment" that it was "kinder" to my mother to lose me without having seen/held me and without the memory of my birth.

All she can tell me (and she has told me more than anyone else ever could/would) is that I was born sometime between XX:00 when she was "put out" and XX:00 -- seven hours later -- when she awoke from anesthesia and I was gone.

As I was adopted several times zones away, it's entirely possible that it was a different day "here" when I was born "there".

I don't really care -- my birth date is my birth date and MY MOTHER and I (and her mother, may she rest in peace) were the only ones there. THAT will never change. MY MOTHER will always be the ONLY mother that was my ONLY mother. I know that may not make sense at first... just think about it.

My adopters didn't even know I existed until the day they picked me up, several times zones away and nearly three weeks later -- they had exactly 6 hours notice that they "had a baby". UGH!

AdoreHim

His/her birthday would be on the day he/she was born. Just because the baby is not in the adopted home until a day or so later, birthdays are the same.

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