why is my ticker off?

redshoegirl · July 2010

I've tried alternatickers, lillypie and thebump tickers, and they're all wrong for dates.

The boys are exactly 12 weeks old today, but all of the tickers say they're something random, like 2 months, 3 weeks and 2 days old. It made me so confused that I actually went and counted weeks on my calendar (even writing down the numbers as I went along lol) just to make sure that *I* wasn't getting their age wrong lol! But nope, they're definitely 12 weeks old today.

Why don't the tickers say they're 3 months old? It's not a timezone issue because alternatickers has a timezone selector. Maybe they calculate each month to have 4.333 weeks instead of 4 weeks?

Am I missing something really obvious? Maybe it is me and my math is totally wrong. If so, please feel free to tell me I'm an idiot lol!

MauiWedding08 · July 2010

b/c there are more than 4 weeks in a month?

MauiWedding08 · July 2010

oh wait - I get it.

It goes by by month. (don't remember what # date the boys were born so lets use Jack)

2.19 so on 6.19 he was 4 mo then it starts counting over from there.

so 6.19 + 3 weeks, 3 days would be the exact # of days weeks after 6.19 to today.

odd.

lelekay · July 2010

redshoegirl:
Why don't the tickers say they're 3 months old? It's not a timezone issue because alternatickers has a timezone selector. Maybe they calculate each month to have 4.333 weeks instead of 4 weeks?

Yeah, my guess is that since there actually aren't 4 weeks in a month, but more like 4.3 on average. It won't say they are 3 months until they are 3 full months (i.e. April 10th to July 10th).

inamra · July 2010

I was just thinking about this age thing the other day. It reminds me of pregnancy--when you say you're X number of weeks along but 40 weeks is actually 10 months instead of 9 if we count 4 weeks in a month. I think there was a post about this the other day and its because technically there's a little more than 4 weeks in a month. So I think the boys are not considered 3 months until 3 months after their birthdate, rather than 12 weeks...or something like that...