Wrongplanet makes me look few months older

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19 Sep 2019, 7:52 pm

So I am 39, and I am supposed to become 40 at December 9. But Wrongplanet says I am 40 now. It switched my age from 39 to 40 just few days ago. Why did they decide to round the ages like that? I mean, I told wrongplanet what my birthday is (if you look at my profile you can see it), so why does it round it up this way?

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19 Sep 2019, 9:15 pm

Are you sure you entered the date correctly? Mine changes on the correct date.

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19 Sep 2019, 9:31 pm

Plenty of posters claim WP makes them look younger

But it's just a couple of months

Why does it matter?

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20 Sep 2019, 1:13 pm

Did it change on the 12th September?

Maybe you've put the date in the wrong format?

12/09/1979 (American format) instead of 09/12/1979 (British format) which the site appears to use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_ ... ted_States

Format needs to be DD-MM-YYYY

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20 Sep 2019, 1:52 pm

It should conform to the ISO 8601 date and time format , which is YYYY-MM-DD, but this is Wrong Planet, after all.

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20 Sep 2019, 1:55 pm

mm/dd/yyyy according to my profile page

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20 Sep 2019, 2:04 pm

harry12345 wrote:

I just checked. I have it 12-09-1979. So could it be the opposite to what you described: WrongPlanet is using British format while I am using American format?

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20 Sep 2019, 2:32 pm

QFT wrote:

harry12345 wrote:

I just checked. I have it 12-09-1979. So could it be the opposite to what you described: WrongPlanet is using British format while I am using American format?

Switch the 12 and the 09 round, click save and it should be updated and show correctly.

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20 Sep 2019, 6:05 pm

harry12345 wrote:

QFT wrote:

harry12345 wrote:

I just checked. I have it 12-09-1979. So could it be the opposite to what you described: WrongPlanet is using British format while I am using American format?

Switch the 12 and the 09 round, click save and it should be updated and show correctly.

Okay, I switched it to 09-12 and now it says I am 39.

Apparently WrongPlanet runs by the European system.

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