when is your birthday if your born on a leap year
February 29 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."[12] Reitz speculates that "March 1 would likely be considered the legal birthday in non-leap years of someone born on leap day,"[12] using the same reasoning as described for the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.