# Do you also tend to write the wrong year for the current date on your birthday?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 25, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037 "2010-09-25T20:24:39Z")
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### Author:  [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/1 "2010-09-25T20:24:39Z")
Not my birthday today, actually (was a month ago), but as I am the type to occasionally idly ruminate, in this cases thinking of brains on autopilot:
Every year on the day of my birthday, when I put today’s date on a note or form, I usually have to strike through and correct the date beacuse I have written my DOB instead of today’s date. For important forms I have to really concentrate not to do this.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/2 "2010-09-25T20:32:53Z")
If I make a mistake it’s the opposite way. When filling out forms I’ll put the current year instead of my birth year.
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/3 "2010-09-25T20:47:24Z")
I honestly can’t remember this ever coming up. I’m sure I’ve had to date stuff on my birthday, but I doubt it’s happened enough to develop a pattern. My birthday’s in the summer, so I never had school on it.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/4 "2010-09-25T20:52:00Z")
I do this. We must just be special.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/5 "2010-09-25T21:13:05Z")
No.
I DO occasionally put down the wrong date if I have to date something on my birthday, but that’s because I was born near the beginning of the year, and it’s quite possible my birthday is the first time I’ll have to write the date that year.
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### Author:  [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/6 "2010-09-25T21:53:36Z")
Not only do I do this sometimes, but even more often, when I try to write “Christmas” or “Christian,” I wind up writing my name. Merry Christine! :smack:
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### Author:  [@QuercusMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuercusMax)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/7 "2010-09-25T22:44:54Z")
My birthday was the 23rd, and I very nearly wrote the wrong year on some forms. I voted Yes, even though I caught myself before I started writing an 8, but that’s probably as much because I’m still over-vigilant not to start a year with a 0.
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/8 "2010-09-25T22:54:27Z")
One year I had to move out of one dorm room and into another on my birthday. Know how many forms have to be signed and dated to do that? I had to keep reminding myself that it was NOT in fact 1967, but 1986.
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### Author:  [@Waffle\_Decider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waffle_Decider)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/9 "2010-09-25T23:09:56Z")
> [@DCnDC](#):
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> If I make a mistake it’s the opposite way. When filling out forms I’ll put the current year instead of my birth year.
Me too. I’ve only done this a few times though.
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### Author:  [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/10 "2010-09-26T00:02:52Z")
I used to make this mistake in my 20s and 30s. Once I hit 40 however, I stopped celebrating my birthday. Problem solved.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-write-the-wrong-year-for-the-current-date-on-your-birthday/555037/11 "2010-09-26T03:10:29Z")
> [@Waffle\_Decider](#):
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> > [@DCnDC](#):
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> > If I make a mistake it’s the opposite way. When filling out forms I’ll put the current year instead of my birth year.
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> Me too. I’ve only done this a few times though.
It’s a trifecta. Heck, I had to put my birthdate in a forum just a day or so ago, and I started the year with a 2 before I realized what I was doing.