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Absolutely nothing is preventing you from celebrating your birthday the way we do Holidays. My birthday isn't September 22, it's the third Saturday in September.

Heck it's not even weird to not bother with this redefinition and just have a party on a more convenient day.

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There's nothing preventing that, sure, but I don't think I'd really enjoy that. I want to celebrate my birthday on the anniversary of the day I was born, not on the nearest weekend day.

(My birthday falls on a national holiday where I live, though, so in practice I've never had to worry about school or work on my birthday.)

In this calendar system, though, the third Saturday in September would always be the same day of the week, so it would keep you from celebrating in that format.

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