When did they begin putting a specific minute of the day on birth and death certificates?

[doreen]

@bump

One’s the actual time the baby came out of its mother, and the other is the time it was actually filed in the city/county/state system officially.

To use an example of why they might differ, a child could be born at say… 9 pm at night, and the birth won’t get recorded until the following day. Or on a Saturday, and recorded the following Monday, for example.

Or they may just batch them up and fill out the paperwork a couple times a week or so in a smaller hospital. Here in Texas, "The person required to file a birth certificate shall file the certificate not later than the fifth day after the date of the birth.", and the person required is either the doctor, midwife or hospital administration person in the majority of births.

That’s exactly the situation I do understand- where there is a field for date of birth and a field for date filed and they are not the same. The one I don’t understand is " My birth certificate says I was *born *March 2, but I celebrate on the date I was actually born , February 27 ( which apparently is not mentioned on my birth certificate at all) "

[Bayaker]

My mother was born in 1931, at home with a midwife present and the time was recorded. The midwife was a neighbor lady who just did that sort of thing, not anyone with a license - if there even were midwife licenses back then. But the birth wasn’t officially recorded until a month(give or take a couple of days) later. My guess is that they were scheduling her Christening and only thought about filing the paperwork with the city when Father Whosit asked about it.