Anyone working in IT development knows the problems we can get with the intricacies of working with Dates and Times. One of those issues are Leap Year's, which I'm assuming everyone is somewhat familar with. Although how many of you think 2100 is a leap year? ;)
Now I am one of those unfortunate souls (insert violin), born on a leap year, on the 29th February. This means that 3 years out of four, I don't get a real birthday, but have to celebrate my birthday on the 28th February, or 1st March. As well as being slightly awkward in a social sense, this can also be a problem when working with computers.
Nowadays this is something that is handled very well by 99% of the computer systems out there, and so I'd like to thank the industry for making allowances for the awkward bunch we are.
However, these is still that 1% that treat us differently, and I was surprised to find that Blogger was one of them!
I wanted to enter my DOB on my profile, but hide my age (I'm shy like that), which Blogger says I may do by omitting the year. Great! However, upon entering 29/02, and attempting to save, I am then told "Invalid date". Lies!!
Therefore blogger have denied me the feature to include my correct DOB, without the year. So for those of you that did view my profile, my birthday is 29/02, and not 28/02 as you may have seen.
Gripe over, thank you for your patience!
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