# On what date had half your life gone by? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 13, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692 "2012-04-13T19:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/21 "2012-04-13T23:40:39Z")
August 17, 1995. I had about two weeks left of summer vacation before I started my junior year of high school. ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/22 "2012-04-13T23:43:24Z")
January 26, 1990. Five months until I graduated college. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/23 "2012-04-13T23:56:39Z")
Christmas Day, 1989. I was 22 years old with a semester of grad school under my belt. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/24 "2012-04-14T00:41:22Z")
12/26/94 I would have been umm … a sophomore in high school. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/25 "2012-04-14T00:54:30Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > 12/26/94 > > I would have been umm … a sophomore in high school. Really? 10/11/1994 I was a senior in high school, and I remember nothing in particular about that specific day. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/26 "2012-04-14T01:46:49Z")
August 23, 1983. The beginning of a post grad school year, one of the best of my life. But the end of that school year brought on the worst thing that has ever happened to me. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/27 "2012-04-14T02:23:00Z")
The calculation is straightforward enough but I don’t really know that it’s been explained why we’re converting our birthdays to Julian instead of just using the current calendar system. ---
**Author:** ![Michael63129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@Michael63129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael63129)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/28 "2012-04-14T03:02:01Z")
October 4, 1998, a 13 year-old in junior high; I don’t remember anything particular about that day (Google brings up tornadoes in Oklahoma). ---
**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/29 "2012-04-14T03:52:36Z")
Oct. 5, 1988 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/30 "2012-04-14T04:01:42Z")
> [@Martin\_Hyde](#): > > The calculation is straightforward enough but I don’t really know that it’s been explained why we’re converting our birthdays to Julian instead of just using the current calendar system. JD makes the math simpler – at least it does for me. Any method that gives you a precise day is okay, and even a ballpark number satisfies the idea of the thread. The linked thread in the OP has a slightly different idea going on, and it just prompted this variation. Fun with dates is the main thing I was after. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/31 "2012-04-14T04:44:17Z")
July 21st, 2000. I don’t remember that day, but I do remember the Concorde crashing 4 days later. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/32 "2012-04-14T05:09:55Z")
Once I decide on a date to kill myself, I’ll figure it out and let you know. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/33 "2012-04-14T05:14:36Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Once I decide on a date to kill myself, I’ll figure it out and let you know. I can hardly wait. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/34 "2012-04-14T14:07:05Z")
I got sometime in February, 1381 AD. Hm. Either bad math or I’m a hemovore. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/35 "2012-04-14T14:18:17Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > I got sometime in February, 1381 AD. > > Hm. Either bad math or I’m a hemovore. I suspect bad math but if the other fits, go for it. Oh, and thanks for the new word! I did look it up online although I was pretty sure what it meant. Dick (a 2000 M-W Collegiate) doesn’t have it. That may be a clue as to how new the vampire craze is. ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/36 "2012-04-14T15:04:21Z")
October 8th, 2000. I was in the sixth grade. I certainly recall the presidential election that would happen about a month later. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/37 "2012-04-14T15:07:42Z")
1066 and all that. I think I made a mistake. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/38 "2012-04-14T17:58:49Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > 1066 and all that. I think I made a mistake. Or you died at the Battle of Hastings and don’t remember it ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/39 "2012-04-14T18:04:26Z")
September 30 1994. I had been at university for two weeks, and I saw Radiohead for the first time that night in the student’s union. Wow. I started university over half my life ago. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692/40 "2012-04-14T18:31:23Z")
I had dinner with a bad-tempered, boring lawyer who yelled at the waiter, once. It seemed like half my life went by on \*that \*date. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-what-date-had-half-your-life-gone-by/618692.md?page=3)