The "Numlock News" app

I look at "Numlock News" regularly.  It is written by Walt Hickey and features short items about numbers of this and that.  The name is meant to suggest numbers, which can indeed suggest important events and forces in our lives.  This morning I read of a Canadian study comparing actual dates with the number of years since that date for the effects of suggesting age.  Mentioning a previous year such as 2016 elicited less of a feeling of age.  Stating the number of years in the age of something elicited more feeling of age.  Like this: 

I was born in 1939.  

I have lived for 86 years.

The first statement doesn't make me seem as old, on quick notice.  The second one makes you see how ancient I am more instantly.