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<blockquote data-quote="waybread" data-source="post: 531496" data-attributes="member: 6041">[deleted remark to off-topic comments - Moderator]&nbsp; I have noted consistently that different jurisdictions do things differently with respect to birth time, so I think we've settled the matter.&nbsp; I stand by everything I write.&nbsp;I don't think the demographic argument is sound.&nbsp; I was part of the post-WW II &quot;baby boom&quot; generation, so there were plenty of births in the western countries in the decade after WW II, yet someone in the delivery room somehow managed to record a birth time for my parents, even though it did not appear on my official short-form birth certificate.&nbsp; &nbsp;Actually, the high birth rate continued in the US until the early 1960s, when the widespread introduction of birth control pills lowered it.&nbsp; Today, most European and industrialized Asian countries have a birth rate at ZPG.&nbsp; China's one-child policy has been in effect for decades, although this may be changing.&nbsp;I do think that in the US, birth times may be rounded to the nearest 5-minutes.&nbsp; The one group I have seen posting here and at Astrodienst with birth times to the exact minute are from India; presumably because astrology is far more reputable there.&nbsp; Of course, this may not apply to births for poor people.&nbsp;But I'll take hospital records over chart rectification on its own, any day; because something so complex as a horoscope can have many confounding variables.&nbsp; The biggest one would be going by personal appearance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="waybread, post: 531496, member: 6041"] [deleted remark to off-topic comments - Moderator] I have noted consistently that different jurisdictions do things differently with respect to birth time, so I think we've settled the matter. I stand by everything I write. I don't think the demographic argument is sound. I was part of the post-WW II "baby boom" generation, so there were plenty of births in the western countries in the decade after WW II, yet someone in the delivery room somehow managed to record a birth time for my parents, even though it did not appear on my official short-form birth certificate. Actually, the high birth rate continued in the US until the early 1960s, when the widespread introduction of birth control pills lowered it. Today, most European and industrialized Asian countries have a birth rate at ZPG. China's one-child policy has been in effect for decades, although this may be changing. I do think that in the US, birth times may be rounded to the nearest 5-minutes. The one group I have seen posting here and at Astrodienst with birth times to the exact minute are from India; presumably because astrology is far more reputable there. Of course, this may not apply to births for poor people. But I'll take hospital records over chart rectification on its own, any day; because something so complex as a horoscope can have many confounding variables. The biggest one would be going by personal appearance. [/QUOTE]

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