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r00tb33r
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12 Feb 2021, 10:58 pm

My age isn't showing up, but my birth date is set on the profile. What could be the reason?



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15 Feb 2021, 5:18 pm

Interests and age aren't shown next to my avatar... Why?



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15 Feb 2021, 5:22 pm

Either a software glitch or improper entry.



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15 Feb 2021, 6:00 pm

Fnord wrote:
Either a software glitch or improper entry.

The entries are fine...(and no, I wasn't born in 460 A.D.) As for the glitch... help?



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15 Feb 2021, 6:02 pm

r00tb33r wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Either a software glitch or improper entry.
The entries are fine...(and no, I wasn't born in 460 A.D.) As for the glitch... help?
Sorry, I cannot help.  The system would say that I was born in 1900 A.D., and I have no idea how to fix it.



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15 Feb 2021, 6:13 pm

Fnord wrote:
r00tb33r wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Either a software glitch or improper entry.
The entries are fine...(and no, I wasn't born in 460 A.D.) As for the glitch... help?
Sorry, I cannot help.  The system would say that I was born in 1900 A.D., and I have no idea how to fix it.

Kind of hoping for a mod/admin taking a peek at this.



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15 Feb 2021, 6:18 pm

Its probably the way your entering the information. Give me a minute.



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15 Feb 2021, 6:19 pm

Think I got it. You may be entering the date as xx/xx/xxxx when it needs to be xx-xx-xxxx to work properly.



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15 Feb 2021, 6:29 pm

I had the same issue. But if I put x's in, how will it come up as numbers?


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15 Feb 2021, 6:56 pm

Feyokien wrote:
Think I got it. You may be entering the date as xx/xx/xxxx when it needs to be xx-xx-xxxx to work properly.

Okay, so the profile editor field is labeled like this:

Date of Birth [_____] mm/dd/yyyy

Which is how I entered it. I replaced the slashes with the dashes, but my age was wrong, so the actual format the forum code uses is

dd-mm-yyyy

Please re-label. Also my interests aren't showing next to the avatar, I think I see it for other users though.



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15 Feb 2021, 7:20 pm

I don't have access to relabel options. Contact Cornflake or Alex as they have admin powers. I don't know how to make interests display.



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15 Feb 2021, 8:28 pm

I was successful with 01-02-1961.



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15 Feb 2021, 11:18 pm

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I was successful with 01-02-1961.

Is that your birthday? You'll get wishes next year if it is.

Yes, we've got it figured out. It was dashes and the day is first, followed by the month and the year.



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16 Feb 2021, 4:15 am

r00tb33r wrote:
Also my interests aren't showing next to the avatar, I think I see it for other users though.
Others are creatively using the "Location" field for that information - Mountain Goat, above, for example.

I'm afraid that the forum software (phpBB) functionality is a little, umm... "ragged" in parts, or completely non-functional. I can't say if this is due to inherent bugs (it's a few versions out of date) or caused by the customisation but WP history shows that it's always been run "as-is" with no active development and if that's any guide, is likely to continue doing so.


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16 Feb 2021, 4:16 am

Mountain Goat wrote:
I had the same issue. But if I put x's in, how will it come up as numbers?
The x's are used to show where numbers would be entered - they're not literal x's, to be added as shown.


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16 Feb 2021, 9:48 am

My age now displays correctly, after I put my birthdate in the "dd-mm-yyyy" format, so I am no longer 121 years old.

If only getting younger was that easy in real life...

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