[rcoveson]

And before an hour has even passed, we'd probably say "minutes old" or perhaps "not even an hour/day old", all to avoid saying "zero days/months/years old". But some might still say zero days old, and they'd be both understood and correct (at least logically if not stylistically). That's the "implicit zero" everybody is talking about. We avoid saying it, but that's just a convention of communcation. Logically it's there. You're zero days old before you're one day old.