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I have a friend who was born on Feb 29, and in Quebec your driver's license fees must be paid on or before your birthday or your license is effectively revoked
by tgtweak 3y ago
I have a friend who was born on Feb 29, and in Quebec your driver's license fees must be paid on or before your birthday or your license is effectively revoked (It's a convenient reminder). He was on his way to pay them on the 29th and got pulled over for having an expired license... after some awkward common confusion with the police they came to the conclusion that the license bureau moves your "reminder" birthday up by 1 day when the actual day is on Feb 29, instead of back to March 1st, so they don't miss out on 3 years of license payments for leap year birthday citizens.
The cop had never encountered this before (1/1460 chance of occurring * the odds of being pulled over on that day)
I don't think they ever patched this, so watch out if you're a leap day license fee procrastinator in Quebec!
- redox99 3y agoWouldn't the drivers license have the expiration date printed on it?
- xandrius 3y agoI mean, they could have paid it any day before then, right? I would have just gone on the 28th and be done with it.
- stevage 3y agoSure...if you knew about this bug in the system.
- dolmen 3y agoIf you are born on a Feb 29th, you should definitely get used to take this kind of precautions. (Like I do when entering my last name that is legally spelled with an "é": I still get mojibake in 2024)
- badcppdev 3y agoLet me tell you about this human trait called procrastination.... actually I just have to do something first
- tudorw 3y agoPay By = Wait Until