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Post by angelislington on Jan 2, 2009 21:06:57 GMT
For some reason, I was meandering through the calendar on this 'ere site. Lots of birthdays clumped together - for instance, two days in March have 5 members celebrating their birthdays on the same days. There are similar days (with 5 members) in June, July & August. Quite a few months have days where 4 members are celebrating their birthdays on the same days. But 1st January? A whopping 12 peeps!  What's going on 9 months before, that's what I wanna know!
(Edited as I do know how to spell 'January' - just not after a can of Carling lol) |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2009 21:18:10 GMT
Could be purely an error; the date format on the registration page is MM/DD/YYYY - the American format for dates....
Although you can change the way the date is laid out on your profile, I don't think that option exists on first registration...
And it might be a decoy option for others... you never know.
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Post by angelislington on Jan 2, 2009 21:40:24 GMT
Could be purely an error; the date format on the registration page is MM/DD/YYYY - the American format for dates.... But surely 1st Jan is the 1st Jan whether it's 1st Jan or Jan 1st? (01/01 v 01/01!!) But you might have a point. It might be the default date for all birthdays until altered by the member. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2009 22:05:57 GMT
Could be purely an error; the date format on the registration page is MM/DD/YYYY - the American format for dates.... But surely 1st Jan is the 1st Jan whether it's 1st Jan or Jan 1st? (01/01 v 01/01!!) But you might have a point. It might be the default date for all birthdays until altered by the member. Not the default because Proboards makes you enter a DoB...some people probably enter 1st January as a fake birthday. |
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Post by citysig on Jan 3, 2009 11:08:43 GMT
I know 4 other people who share my birthday (and were born the same year), and 2 others who have a birthday on the day after.
Clumps of birthdays, especially in certain generations, can sometimes give clues as to what was happening (not literally - this is a family site) at the time your parents did the deed so to speak. My birthday tends to tie in nicely (if it can be called that - I don't want to imagine really) with a June Holiday the previous year. Maybe the others I know were also on holiday - except hopefully not in the same place, as this could give rise to a possibility we're all related ;D ;D
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Post by Colin on Jan 3, 2009 15:43:26 GMT
some people probably enter 1st January as a fake birthday. I would suggest this is by far the most likely answer to your question - a lot of people don't like others knowing their real date of birth as, if it can be tied to another personal information, it could be used in identity theft, etc. There are of course some, like myself, who did indeed enter the details incorrectly by accident. On the whole though, I don't think it's to much of a major issue. |
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Post by Phil on Jan 4, 2009 16:35:20 GMT
And don't forget true randomness - remember a premium bond with the number 77777777 is just as likely to win a (random) prize as a bond with all different digits.
And you only have to have 32 people in a room for there to be a greater than 50% chance of two of them having the same birthday (today's useless party-stopping fact).
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Post by Chris W on Jan 4, 2009 17:00:06 GMT
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz  That's nearly as bad as going to a party and announcing that you're a trainspotter ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Chris M on Jan 5, 2009 20:30:48 GMT
And you only have to have 32 people in a room for there to be a greater than 50% chance of two of them having the same birthday (today's useless party-stopping fact). And you don't even need that many, in my group of 14 friends at school, two share the same birthday. Coincidentally this is also same day that my eldest cousin, two people I know from university, one person from each of two other web forums, a friend I know through my former landlady and the keyboard player in a band I've seen several times celebrate their birthdays. The 31st of July, however is not the anniversary of the birth of any member of this forum. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2009 23:26:50 GMT
Im happy, Im alone in my birthday :-)
Tho in july alone here is 19 members birthdays! thats a hell of a lot!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2009 1:00:57 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2009 13:55:28 GMT
A simple solution may be this. Work back 40 weeks from January the 1st and doesn't that put you roughly near Mothers day? Take it from someone who was born roughly 40 weeks after his Mothers birthday and who is married to someone who was born roughly 40 weeks after her Fathers birthday!!  Well yes but as the average 40 weeks of pregnancy is calculated from the first day of the last period before conception, conception is likely to have taken place roughly 2 weeks after that date. So when someone is 4 weeks pregnant they actually conceived approx 2 weeks ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2009 23:14:53 GMT
But then if they were born two weeks late like all of my three.........
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