> Apparently, the Japanese used to (before they started adopting western > conventions). I.e. ages were given as "in his tenth year" (meaning nine > years old).
Koreans still do this. The day a child is born it is "one". Even odder to me, the next birthday is not on the next anniversary of the birth, but on the following New Year's Day. So a kid who is born on Dec 26th, will be "two" as of New Year's Day the week following his/ her birth. (They also are aware of the "western" version of their ages if needed). . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list