<Dl> <Dd> If a period fixed by weeks, months, and years does not commence from the beginning of a week, month, or year, it ends with the ending of the day which proceeds the day of the last week, month, or year which corresponds to that on which it began to commence . But if there is no corresponding day in the last month, the period ends with the ending of the last day of the last month . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> If a period fixed by weeks, months, and years does not commence from the beginning of a week, month, or year, it ends with the ending of the day which proceeds the day of the last week, month, or year which corresponds to that on which it began to commence . But if there is no corresponding day in the last month, the period ends with the ending of the last day of the last month . </Dd> <P> Thus, in England and Wales or in Hong Kong, a person born on February 29 will have legally reached 18 years old on March 1 . If they were born in Taiwan they legally become 18 on February 28, a day earlier . In the United States, according to John Reitz, a professor of law at the University of Iowa, there is no "...statute or general rule that has anything to do with leap day ." Reitz speculates that "March 1 would likely be considered the legal birthday in non-leap years of someone born on leap day," using the same reasoning as described for the United Kingdom and Hong Kong . </P> <P> There are many instances in children's literature where a person's claim to be only a quarter of their actual age turns out to be based on counting only their leap - year birthdays . </P>

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