Opinion ID: 1533301
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Heading: Day or Moment of the Twenty-First Birthday

Text: This set of 21 year olds would include at most a 24 hour time span of people, if one allowed the entire day of the birthday to be included. But, it might only include a moment's span of people if once the anniversary of the time of their birth was passed, they were no longer 21 years old but rather over 21 years old. For example, Gregory Keane was born at 3:32 a.m. on 11 March. In the first interpretation, at most he would have had the whole day of 11 March to be considered 21 years old. In the second interpretation, he would have been considered 21 years old only at the moment of 3:32 a.m. on 11 March. After that he would be considered over 21 years old. Could the legislature reasonably have intended the set of people 21 years old  to include only a day's group of people, or only a moment's group?