Some kind of daft computing error

[friedebarth]

Hello, y'all :)

When registering, I just found a major bug. And, something would have to be severely wrong with the php.ini, forum software or server to create this bug.

Because, if I'm born on December 26th, 1995, am I 13 years old? Correct, I am. So why does the forum software try to tell me I was only 12 years old and to young to pass the COPPA, forcing me to enter 1994 as my birth year in order to bypass this bug?

I mean, it's not a huge deal, just I'd rather enter my real date of birth instead of having to lie in order to be active here. And I can't even find a good explanation for it. The only things plausible would be a drastic lag in the reception of the date from whatever timeserver is being used, a bug that occured in that timeserver or a malfunction of the php-date() script.

Greetings,

Fred

[rylab]

Did this happen when registering, or when trying to edit your profile after signing up? It sounds more like a simple math miscalculation in the server software than any of the (much more interesting) potential errors you've listed.

[tokenuser]

I was thinking a "<" vs a "<=" type error in the math as well.
The world is not ending ... and who enters their real age anyway?

Signed,
TokenUser
18yo female
St Paul, MN.

;)


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+--- not really.

[friedebarth]

@rylab: It came up when registering.

@tokenuser: I do, obviously :D

[rylab]

As we suspected, it was a simple <= instead of < type of logic error, and has been fixed. Feel free to change your birth-year to the correct one if you feel like it :)