[Developers] one-off error in freebase?

[brendan neutra]

I believe this is a known issue with our javascript datetime widget. I don't 
think it's browser specific. I just tried changing my computers time zone to 
"down under" and reproduced the issue you're describing in IE7. If you view 
source you can see that the underlying datapoint for dob is "1955".  I think the 
javascript is trying to adjust for timezone, which would be nice if the datetime 
were describing when a conference call is starting but no so good in this case 
(I think it finds 1955 to be ambiguous as a fully qualified point in time). 
I'll let someone with more understanding of the issue chime in...

Brendan

Kirrily Robert wrote:
> On 10/2/07, Christoph Pingel <pingel at cognity.de> wrote:
>> This is odd. On *all* my Mac browsers (Camino, Firefox, Safari) the date of
>> birth is 1956, and the end-dates 1980 and 1983.
>> June 30th will display as July 1st. And so on. No matter if I'm logged in or
>> not.
> 
> I'm seeing this too on Firefox on Mac.  I think it's relatively
> recent, though; I was playing with dates on some fields a month or so
> back and didn't notice anything, but I did notice this off-by-one
> error yesterday or today, and just thought it was a mis-entry.
> 
> K.
>