# How old are you, exactly?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 27, 2002, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352 "2002-03-27T10:41:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/41 "2002-03-28T02:42:26Z")

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It is 10,006 days, 18 hours, 12 minutes and 25 seconds since I was born. Or 864,583,945 seconds or 14,409,732 minutes or 240,162 hours.

And if I had a penny for every second of my life, why I’d buy my own island.

What boring numbers. No 1234567 or 12121212 or anything like that.

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**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/42 "2002-03-28T02:45:28Z")

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11130 days, 22 hours, 37 minutes and 39 seconds

And I feel every minute of it. 🙂

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**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/43 "2002-03-28T02:51:14Z")

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8977 days, 7 hours, 26 minutes and 33 seconds  
But, to be fair, I don’t know how many seconds past 7:24 pm I was born, so I had to estimate.

Colin

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**Author:** ![tigergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@tigergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tigergirl)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/44 "2002-03-28T02:57:12Z")

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7715 days, 16 hours, 29 minutes and 4 seconds .

You know what the disturbing thing is, that someone actually _bothered_ to setup that site…

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**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/45 "2002-03-28T03:03:55Z")

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This’ll be easy - tomorrow is the one-month anniversiary of my sixteenth birthday.

(plays with calculator)

5,872 days.

140,930 hours.

8,455,800 minutes.

I could have held my breath for my maximum time 5,637,200 times during my life. Then again, I’d have a shorter life, making that moot…

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**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/46 "2002-03-28T03:52:03Z")

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I am old.

Better than the alternitive.

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**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/47 "2002-03-28T04:12:38Z")

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As of my post, 11:10 pm on Wednesday, March 27th, 2002, I am 13,638 days, 9 hours, and 22 minutes old.  
Damn.

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**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/48 "2002-03-28T04:17:53Z")

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7480 days.

That’s possibly the closest y’all’ll get to my age:)

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**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/49 "2002-03-28T06:54:41Z")

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As of this post I am 10,391 days, 14 hours, and 21 minutes old.

Or 249,398 hours old…

Or 14,963,901 minutes old…

Or 897,834,108 seconds old…

The idea of measuring my age in the millions… :eek:

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**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/50 "2002-03-28T06:59:50Z")

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As of this post I am 10,391 days, 14 hours, and 21 minutes old.

Or 249,398 hours old…

Or 14,963,901 minutes old…

Or 897,834,108 seconds old…

The idea of measuring my age in the millions… :eek:

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**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/51 "2002-03-28T08:21:22Z")

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8741 days, 13 hours, 10 minutes and 32 seconds

Damn…Has it really been that long?😕 :eek:

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**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/52 "2002-03-28T09:26:03Z")

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7601 days, 3 hours, 59 minutes and 37 seconds

Well I, uhh, umm, at least I’m younger than most everyone else.

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**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/53 "2002-03-28T13:08:07Z")

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11285 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes and 3 seconds

hmmmm… I feel much younger 😉 maybe that is just my immaturity sneaking out!

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**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/54 "2002-03-28T13:12:44Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by cazzle \*  
> \*\*9334 days, 5 hours, 9 minutes and 59 seconds
> 
> But I dare say it’s out by at least a day… I don’t know what the time was in America when I was born in Australia - I know it would have been the fourth, not the fifth of September.
> 
> As a bonus, I’ve been married:  
> 94 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes and 26 seconds  
> (Or 8192906 seconds or 136548 minutes or 2275 hours) \*\*

I did…now all I have left is 1 207 669 770…errr 769…err…768  
I feel like life is passing me by as I type this…and I have the clock on my screen to prove it!!!  
Now I am not feeling so young!

:eek:

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**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/55 "2002-03-28T13:15:24Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Angkins \*  
> \*\*
> 
> I did…now all I have left is 1 207 669 770…errr 769…err…768  
> I feel like life is passing me by as I type this…and I have the clock on my screen to prove it!!!  
> Now I am not feeling so young!
> 
> :eek: \*\*

oops:o I didn’t mean to quote cazzle!!! Blond moment or something…maybe I need to be posting more, obviously I have some problems doing it properly!!!  
Okey…now I think I’ll just go back to bed, I must need the sleep.

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**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/56 "2002-03-28T16:50:22Z")

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343 in dog years:p

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/57 "2002-03-28T18:01:53Z")

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13,349 days  
8 hours  
15 minutes  
20 seconds

Just as I thought.

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**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/58 "2002-03-28T20:09:27Z")

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8437 days, 18 hours, 41 minutes and 03 seconds

Yes, I was born 3 seconds after the minute.

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**Author:** ![Anubis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Anubis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anubis)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/59 "2002-03-28T23:35:07Z")

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Wow! I **AM** the youngest poster… that is, unless someone else wants to come forward and post their (real) age that is below mine… Until then…

\*\*\*OLD FARTS!!! \*\*\*

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-you-exactly/100352/60 "2002-03-29T06:10:27Z")

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Time calculation  
From: Thursday December 12, 1985 at 20:42:22  
to: Friday March 29, 2002 at 01:11:55  
It is 5950 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes and 33 seconds between those dates

Or 514096173 seconds or 8568269 minutes or 142804 hours

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