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Do the longevity figures for Adams, Madison, and Jefferson allow for the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in 1752? -- Arwel 01:36, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Um. Question. For presidents still living, is someone planning on updating the lifespan every day? Everyking 07:21, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Wouldn't it be more accurate to calculate the Years/Days column by counting the number of days from that President's last birthday? So for example Reagan would be 93 years 120 days, since there were 120 days from 6th February 2004 to 5th June 2004? I'm happy to convert them myself if nobody objects. --Fwb22 17:47, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
'Note, that the United Kingdom (and her colonies) adopted the Gregorian_Calendar in 1751, so that the English year 1751 consisted of days from 25 March to 31 December, skipping 83 days. A total of only 282 days that year! That´s making the lifespans of the presidents born in or before 1751 by 83 days shorter!'
Hasn't the article taken this anomaly into account? It should do, and if it has, it should be noted, I think. Ben davison 23:05, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
Maybe it would be a better idea to only recalculate this on certain days, such as January 1 of each year, plus whenever a currently living president dies. With this haphazard sort of "recalculate-when-we-feel-like-it" deal now, I've noticed that a lot of the time, the numbers are actually inaccuate. Since people are coming through and recalculating them at will, it's happening too often for other users to go through and make sure the changes were all correct. Anyone have any comments? —Cleared as filed. 12:23, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
I think the recalculation is meant to be done every month, but sometimes when other small changes are made, people feel they might as well recalculate in order to bring the article as up to date as possible. If we were to set a date for recalculation, I'd say reinforce the 'start of every month' idea rather than every year. Ben davison 13:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
213.226.226.128 accidentally updated only the years/day column, which resulted in the days only column being out of date. [1] Subsequent editors only added days on top of this error. I ran a date calculator for Ford, Bush, Carter, Clinton, and Bush to update for January 1 2006. OCNative 04:04, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Ooh, looks like Carter's going to beat Nixon in a few days. Suggest we do an update then, and the day after. Morwen - Talk 11:46, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Asterisks or some other notes should be included for those presidents who died of unnatural causes (e.g. assassination)--to account for the "young" age in death.
Ford will only pass Reagan as the longest-lived US President on the 12th. Remember Reagan had one more leap-day (1912). GoodDay 15:02, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Some of the Presidents #of days are incorrect; due to the leap-days not being included. Eventually I'll correct them, however if anyone else wants to, by all means go ahead. PS. the leap years are US Presidential election years. GoodDay 00:59, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
I corrected the "years/days" dates for Gerald Ford, as Reagan saw one extra leap year. The figures didn't make sense as they were. ~SF
I think that such a list would be helpful, as a separate article. It would detail the chronic conditions and fatal conditions suffered by Presidents either before, during or after their term of office. The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia had a very interesting special exhibition on this subject a few years ago. Spikebrennan 16:05, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
" GERALD FORD on November 25, 2017 (on this date George HW Bush will be the longest lived President ever)
This is not for sure because people can always elect a really old guy for the U.S. President in 2008, 2012 or 2016. -- Toytoy 15:09, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Just wondering, isn't there an automated template or something that can be used to update the living president's age? I mean, if there's stuff like the ((today)) template, there should be something for total days. JQF • Talk • Contribs 20:37, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
It would be a good idea and interesting to get an average age as well - tali 1/1/07
Is the list counting the extra day of a leap year? 213.22.38.145 03:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
After the recent deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of United States Presidents by longevity in which this list barely survived I thought maybe it'd be good to take some preemptive steps to save this list. One of the things raised in the discussion was that there were just too many lists and that users supported certain lists, but not others. I just spent some time learning how to use sortable lists and I came up with this: User:JayHenry/president. It's not completely finished yet, but I'm ready to see what people think -- it combines all of the information from List of United States Presidents by longevity, List of United States presidents by age at ascension to office, List of United States Presidents by time as former president, it also includes dates of birth and death, although it would not be a good replacement for those lists, as they contain other information (place, cause, etc.). The list is fully sortable! So what do people think? If we implement this list I'm pretty sure we can prevent president lists from showing up at WP:AFD. With some help, this could possibly even be a featured list! --JayHenry 21:35, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
I am very sorry this list doesn't exist and I'm thinking about recreating it. We have this list of the US Vice Presidents and of the First Ladies of the US. There are now, 16 months after the discussion above, a lot of lists which don't deserve to exist if this one doesn't exist. Please comment! Calle Widmann (talk) 07:46, 28 September 2008 (UTC)