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fuck you bill (lemy.lol)
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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Kind of arbitrary but someone with decision making power decreed it.

Here, under protest is this code. Every time the user doesn't have a birthday, we return January 1st. Do we really mean that?