April 15, 2022

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In Welcome To Storybrooke, the newspaper that a customer reads in Granny's Diner the morning after the curse is dated October 23, 1983. This means Emma's birthday is either October 22, or October 23, depending on whether she was born before or after midnight. The show premiered on October 23, 2011. Adam Horowitz has stated that Emma's birthday is October 23. However, the show itself indicates that her birthday is October 22. In the Season One episode Pilot, Emma celebrates her twenty-eight birthday on the day she arrives in Storybrooke, which was the day before she spends the night behind bars and decides to stay; she even says to Regina that "yesterday was my birthday". The date is confirmed when August's wooden state is triggered in Phuket, Thailand at 8:15 A.M. on October 24, in Selfless, Brave and True — as stated by August in the Season One episode The Stranger', this is the very same moment that Emma accepts the room key at 8:15 P.M. in Storybrooke (the time zone in Phuket is twelve hours ahead of Maine's time zone). Moreover, in Pilot, Emma is put in the magic wardrobe before the Dark Curse transports everyone to Storybrooke. When the Dark Curse reaches the Land Without Magic in Welcome to Storybrooke, it is nighttime. However, when Emma arrives in the Land Without Magic in Selfless, Brave and True, it is daytime, meaning she must have been born on October 22, not 23.