Google Account demanding date of birth

Debran

J_B said:

I always put 01/01/1900 which seems to satisfy most of these ... apart from one who would only let me use 1910!

You beat me to it, J_B.   I, too, use 1 January 1900 when requested for a date of birth.

getmore4less

Teapot55 said:

Always a good idea to make sure that you remember which date you told them in case they ask you for it as part of some verification process?

Lost a MS account because of that problem,  it was set up only for for a windows phone and hardly ever used.  

Ganga

debitcardmayhem said:

I remember one site , the name of which I have forgotten and I put 29/02/63 which of course doesn't exist but they happily accepted it, sadly never found one that goes back to 1752, I would have loved to say 3...13/09/1752

Why? what is significant about that date ?

Penguin_

Ganga said:

debitcardmayhem said:

I remember one site , the name of which I have forgotten and I put 29/02/63 which of course doesn't exist but they happily accepted it, sadly never found one that goes back to 1752, I would have loved to say 3...13/09/1752

Why? what is significant about that date ?

Is it something to do with the missing 11 days?

debitcardmayhem

Gregorian calendar 11 days "lost"

Biggus_Dickus

Penguin_ said:

Ganga said:

debitcardmayhem said:

I remember one site , the name of which I have forgotten and I put 29/02/63 which of course doesn't exist but they happily accepted it, sadly never found one that goes back to 1752, I would have loved to say 3...13/09/1752

Why? what is significant about that date ?

Is it something to do with the missing 11 days?

It’s when we switched to the Gregorian calendar from the flawed calendar that dopey old  Julius Caesar left us with, and it meant we jumped forward 11 days to account for leap years and other gubbins,...something like that anyway;...many European countries had been using the Gregorian calendar for almost 200 years before us so we were a little slow on the uptake.

Many people fervently believed the stories circulating at the time that switching to the new calendar had actually shortened their lives by 11 days. 18th century ‘fake news’ ! 

Neil_Jones

Penguin_ said:

Ganga said:

debitcardmayhem said:

I remember one site , the name of which I have forgotten and I put 29/02/63 which of course doesn't exist but they happily accepted it, sadly never found one that goes back to 1752, I would have loved to say 3...13/09/1752

Why? what is significant about that date ?

Is it something to do with the missing 11 days?

They're not "missing", they were just skipped.  The date was changed.  That's all.

And there were not "riots" as you may have read elsewhere, somebody made that up.

And it also explains why the tax year starts on April 6th.  Previously it used to be March 25th, which also used to be the start of the "new" year too.  That was scrapped and replaced with January 1st to match Europe, but the tax year thing was never changed, hence why it runs April 6th to April 5th the following year.

Penguin_

Neil_Jones said:

Penguin_ said:

Ganga said:

debitcardmayhem said:

I remember one site , the name of which I have forgotten and I put 29/02/63 which of course doesn't exist but they happily accepted it, sadly never found one that goes back to 1752, I would have loved to say 3...13/09/1752

Why? what is significant about that date ?

Is it something to do with the missing 11 days?

They're not "missing", they were just skipped.  The date was changed.  That's all.

And there were not "riots" as you may have read elsewhere, somebody made that up.

And it also explains why the tax year starts on April 6th.  Previously it used to be March 25th, which also used to be the start of the "new" year too.  That was scrapped and replaced with January 1st to match Europe, but the tax year thing was never changed, hence why it runs April 6th to April 5th the following year.

Good to know, thanks. I know very little about it, I only knew it because I was in a pub quiz & the question was "what is significant about the 3rd September 1752?"