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13 Dec 2023, 10:32 am

I spent ages putting in my date of birth a while ago- getting the format right in the American style. Then I had my birthday and my age didn't change. Why do we have to put our DOB in if it's not going to change it?


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13 Dec 2023, 11:37 am

I had trouble getting my age to display correctly until I ignored the format "advice" where you enter the date and, instead, used this format: 13-12-2023


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13 Dec 2023, 12:06 pm

Double Retired wrote:
I had trouble getting my age to display correctly until I ignored the format "advice" where you enter the date and, instead, used this format: 13-12-2023

Yep, that's what I did as well. Apparently there's no check of validity as there is no 17th month.



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13 Dec 2023, 1:40 pm

Entering it as dd-mm-yyyy should work Ok.


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13 Dec 2023, 3:01 pm

Oh I put it in the American way because the instructions said: mm/dd/yyyy


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13 Dec 2023, 5:04 pm

Yeah - one of many broken things here, unfortunately.


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13 Dec 2023, 5:20 pm

Oh well I shall remain 54 forever 8)


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13 Dec 2023, 5:32 pm

Did you not try it as dd-mm-yyyy ?


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14 Dec 2023, 3:43 am

Yes I tried that to start with and it didn't work so I put it as the American style mm/dd/yyyy and it added my age to my description. But didn't change it automatically.


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14 Dec 2023, 9:05 am

The American style of mm/dd/yyyy is known to give the wrong age.

Umm, sorry to labour the point but this has worked for at least three four members... :scratch: (eg: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=417564&p=9406203#p9406587)
Today Dec 14th would be entered literally dd-mm-yyyy as 14-12-2023
No spaces, just as it appears above.
You're clicking the "Update Profile" button, right at the bottom of the screen?


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14 Dec 2023, 9:14 am

Works for me. I've got mine in dd-m-yyyy. So ex 10-1-2018