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by sbarre 3189 days ago
January 1st 1970 is sometimes known as "The Internet's birthday" for this reason..
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It's also the "UNIX Birthday".
Right, leave it blank when enrolling → Empty value coerced to number becomes 0 → Recorded in Unix timestamp format where 0 is Jan 1 1970 → Wow, everyone was born then?