Twin born second technically 'older' due to daylight savings change
Twins Samuel and Ronan with parents Emily and Seth Peterson. (Facebook/Cape Cod Healthcare)
A US twin has been pronounced the older of the pair despite being born second, owing to the adjustment for daylight savings time (DST).
Massachusetts newborn Ronan, born just 31 minutes after brother Samuel, was awarded the age advantage due to a DST adjustment, which saw his date of birth put back an hour.
As a result Ronan -- who was in fact born at 2:10am prior to adjustment -- was recorded as having been born at 1:10am, compared to Samuel’s listed date of birth as 1:39am.
The unusual occurrence was detailed by Cape Cod Healthcare in a post to its official Facebook page last week.
“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,” father Seth Peterson said in the post.
Hospital nurse Deb Totten said it was the first time she had witnessed such a thing occurring over her 40-year nursing career.
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