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How to value a pension?

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  • hyubh
    hyubh Posts: 3,746 Forumite
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    audigex wrote: »
    Can anyone actually get this calculator to work?

    If I enter my DoB (22/11/1989) I get an "Invalid DoB" error. If I enter anything else it says "* Please specify your date of birth in format dd/mm/yyyy" And if I put in 01/01/1970 I get "An unexpected error occured :Conversion from string "70 1" to type 'Integer' is not valid."

    01/01/1970 works for me if the 2008 section is selected, but I get the error you do when the 2015 section is selected. 22/11/1989 doesn't work in either case - I'd imagine that while the UI validation code is correctly looking for British format (dd/mm/yyyy), the calc code is then mistakenly assuming US format (mm/dd/yyyy). Clearly this thing hasn't been tested properly...!
  • audigex
    audigex Posts: 557 Forumite
    hyubh wrote: »
    01/01/1970 works for me if the 2008 section is selected, but I get the error you do when the 2015 section is selected. 22/11/1989 doesn't work in either case - I'd imagine that while the UI validation code is correctly looking for British format (dd/mm/yyyy), the calc code is then mistakenly assuming US format (mm/dd/yyyy). Clearly this thing hasn't been tested properly...!

    Thanks, just wanted to check it wasn't just my machine before I messed around trying to find another

    Ironically, I'm interested in this because I've recently become a software developer in the NHS :p
    "You did not pull yourself up by your bootstraps. You were lucky enough to come of age at a time when housing was cheap, welfare was generous, and inflation was high enough to wipe out any debts you acquired. I’m pleased for you, but please stop being so unbearably smug about it."
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