Posted on 11/12/2016 10:10:54 AM PST by nickcarraway
It will make for an interesting story later in life when they get asked – as most twins do – “Which one of you is older?”
Samuel was born first, but his twin brother, Ronan, is officially older. You read that correctly. How could this happen? Daylight Saving Time.
Cape Cod Healthcare posted the interesting twist on its Facebook page after the twin boys were born at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
The hospital said Samuel was born at 1:39 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 6. By the time Ronan was born 31 minutes later, Daylight Saving Time had ended, and the time fell back an hour – that made Ronan’s official time of birth 1:10 a.m. So, on paper, Ronan is the older twin.
President and CEO of Cape Cod Healthcare, Michael K. Lauf, told ABC News that “the Peterson twins’ birth story was a remarkable occurrence.”
He added, “Our veteran maternity nurse, Deb Totten, said it was the first time she has seen it in more than 40 years of nursing.”
The boys’ parents, Emily and Seth Peterson, think it’s “kind of cool.”
“I said earlier that night that they were either going to be born on two different days or the time change was going to come into play,” Seth said.
Samuel and Ronan are healthy and have gone home, where they are hanging out with their big sister, 2-year-old Aubrey.
Just another reason that DST is stupid
They should use Greenwich Mean Time as the criteria.
But, it lets you go back in time.
If you take a plane from Atlanta to Huntville, you arrive before you depart. Weird.
If delivery of the second twin could have been held off for an hour, they could have been born simultaneously.
How about Ephemeris Time. Or TAI? Or GPS Time?
BTW, the use of the term “GMT” is deprecated in technical usage, because its meaning is ambiguous. Up until 1925 a day of GMT began at noon in Greenwich, since 1925, at midnight. It was originally the time scale used in the Astronomical Almanac (jointly published by Her Majesty’s publishing service and the U.S. Naval Observatory.)
Does no such thing. Man playing around with clocks doesn’t do one thing to determine actual passage of time.
I will say it will be a neat bar trick one day.
There is no twist. It’s obvious who is older. The foolishness of changing the setting of a clock means that the clock registers the same time twice in the same night, in direct contradiction with reality.
I’m against Daylight Savings Time. That extra hour of sunlight is what is causing global warming.
All I did was say it is another reason to get rid of DST. Your comment goes not address mine at all
I once saw a meme, supposedly an old Indian saying, ‘only the white man could cut a foot off the end of the blanket, attach it to the other end, and tell people that the blanket was longer’. Sort of fits.....
Twenty years from now, poor Aubrey is gonna finally bust and scream “SHUT UP! JUST SHUT THE HELL UP, BOTH OF YOU!! I DON’T WANT TO HEAR THIS STUPID ANECDOTE AGAIN! SHUT UPPPPPPPPP!! GAAAAHHHH!!”
Yawn.
Yes, but only in the summer.
I know a set of twins that were born around midnight - one just before, and one after - one day difference in their birthdays.
cool as if each twin is born in a different year and first born is considered a year older. /s
I won’t say that the following tops this but in terms of financial impact, it can be a doozy and it happens with some frequency!
Same circumstances, but at December 31st with the second child born after midnight on January 1st. Thus the older twin has a prior year birthdate to the younger twin.
Tax law goes by calendar year so the parents get the ‘Child Tax Credit’ for the 1st child on that year’s tax return. They cannot claim the second twin until the following year. However they both get the 16 years so the second twin claims in the year when the first twin exceeds that age.
It is unknown to me if hospitals have any leeway to modify the times of birth to fit both into the prior year. Logically speaking, it is a SINGLE birth event BUT since when does logic trump rules and regulations.
My nephew-in-law born some days ago is also named Samuel. :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel
LOL
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