When that epoch of general rejoicing arrives, he is credited with another year himself.

So is everybody else.

New Year's day is a common birthday for the community, a sort of impersonal anniversary for his whole world.

A like reckoning is followed in China and Korea.
Upon the disadvantages of being considered from one's birth up at least one year and possibly two older than one really is, it lies beyond our present purpose to expatiate.

It is quite evident that woman has had no voice in the framing of such a chronology.