[Flockster]

Well..

Is a year really "arbitrarily chosen"? After all it's defined by our solar system. And for the start date of Jan 01, I would go out and claim, that years are most of the time compared starting Jan 01. It would be much more random to start this record on Feb 20.

Yes one may debate if 110 as the cutof to count days in is "the best choice", but well, it's in the US and we humans like nice numbers ;)

But all these values are not excluding like your example.

[moralestapia]

>that years are most of the time compared starting Jan 01

In accounting, maybe, nature DGAF about when people file taxes, lol.