Well, whether this happens or not is related to how many catch-up leap years you've crossed during your 10957 days. James was born in 1980, in October. Being born in the first few months after a 29th Feb, James doesn't benefit from his first catch-up for almost four years. This means he is generally owed, rather than owing a day. If he had been born in the months running up to a 29th Feb, he would experience his first extra day very quickly and generally be 'ahead'.
Anyway, further questions occur: how many times might this occur in your life? And where in the leap year cycle would you need to be born in order to benefit from this phenomenon on that birthday? Here is a list. I could explain how I came about this, but this margin is too narrow. It has to do with where you are born in relation to the leap day and whether the prime is above or below 365.25 * number of years.
First, some terminology. Let yi be a period of 365 days from 1st March to 28th Feb. Let d be the 29th Feb. Then the leap year cycle looks like this:
y1y2y3y4d
Then the prime birthdays that are also annual birthdays look like this:
| years | relevant prime | born during |
| 7 | 2557 | y2y3y4d |
| 10 | 3253 | y3y4d |
| 14 | 5113 | y1y2 |
| 15 | 5479 | y2y3y4d |
| 26 | 9497 | y3y4d |
| 30 | 10957 | y1y2 |
| 38 | 13879 | y1y2 |
| 47 | 17167 | y2y3y4d |
| 55 | 20089 | y2y3y4d |
| 63 | 23011 | y2y3y4d |
| 65 | 23741 | y1y2y3 |
| 66 | 24107 | y3y4d |
| 71 | 25933 | y2y3y4d |
| 89 | 32507 | y1y2y3 |
I may very easily have calculated, or typed, any of this completely incorrectly.







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