They say we have no control over time.Maybe so. But there is no arguing that time can definitely play a dirty trick on us. It was time that turned out to be the author of the oddity with the birth of twins in Massachusetts. The happy parents Emily and Seth Peterson were expecting twins. The labor began on the night from Saturday to Sunday, from November 5 to 6. Everything was going well, and at 1.39 the first boy was born - a strong Sam. The obstetricians expected the second to appear in about half an hour, somewhere around the beginning of two. And so it would have been. But ... You know, there is always some "but". It's Murphy's law: if something can go wrong, it will. At two o'clock in the morning, the clocks across the state were switched to winter time. That is, an hour back. And the baby, who in fact was born half an hour later than his brother, turned out to be older according to the documents. Instead of 2.10, Ronan's birth time is 1.10. Here's the Peterson family paradox for you: how can you be born earlier and still be younger? The boys' father said he expected something like this. "I always said they'd either be born on different days or the time change would play some kind of trick," Seth smiles. And the twins' mother hopes they won't spend their whole lives arguing about who's actually older. By the way, unlike the phlegmatic dad, the hospital staff is genuinely surprised. "I've been delivering babies for 40 years and I've never seen anything like this!" admitted Deb Totten, a hospital nurse. Journalists were surprised too. When the hospital posted about this event on its Facebook page, the media immediately spread the story across the Internet.
