Bots?

[House of Usher]

Just noticed how many message boarders are celebrating their 9th birthday today. That really is quite a lot! And what a bunch of unlikely names too. What's going on here??? Are they all Cybermen or something?

[Wake]

On the old site, the DOB registration field was set to 2000AD with no month or date, so anyone who didn't give a birthday ended up with 2000-00-00 in the database. Somehow that has translated to 1999-11-30 on the new site.

[Wake]

I can see how it happened though. 00/00/2000 is one month and one day before 01/01/2000 and so is 30/11/1999.

[House of Usher]

Thanks, Wake. That's quite interesting in a nerdy sort of way. I'm glad I asked! Excuse me while I congratulate myself for having spotted this one-off occurrence.