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They might care when everyone's birthdays are though.

zrail 13y ago
That information is already in many, many places. In particular, if you have a passport or drivers license it's already available to the government.
- aestra 13y ago
  @derefr, my sister had a similar thing happen. In the public records department someone possibly mistook a 7 for a 1 and my sister's original birth certificate got issued with the wrong date and was filed wrong. When my parents called about the error, they issued a new one, but never requested the old one back. She has two official birth certificates with two different birth dates. I'm not sure which one the government believes is "correct" but she's been using her real birthday birth certificate on all documents (drivers license, passport...) since.
  - girvo 13y ago
    I have a birth certificate with a different last name, as my Dad adopted me (natural father and mother, got married a year later, born with mum's name but now have dad's once I turned about 1.5yrs). I even am pretty certain I have a second birth certificate with mt dad's name, but I'm not certain. I also have my adoption papers, and I left the country I was born in when I was young (7 years). As far as the country I live in is concerned I'm my Father's last name, but have legitimate primary ID with my mother's pre marriage last name. Always wanted to get my spy on and build up a second identity with that. Of course that's highly illegal, so itw only ever been a fun thought exercise :)
- derefr 13y ago
  In fact, practically, your birth date is only your birth date inasmuch as the government believes that that's the date it is. If a nurse in the pregnancy ward makes a typo, and that's what gets submitted to the government, then that's your birth date, and no arguing. (I say this from a position somewhere in-between: I was born in British Columbia, and my birth date is right on my birth certificate, but wrong on the public-health-plan card you also get issued at birth. I had a very strange time bootstrapping my first credit card...)
  - maxerickson 13y ago
    I like the linguistic ambiguity here. Of course, you are talking about a legal birth date and how in practice that is what matters, but really, what the government thinks has no bearing on your actual birth date.

zrail 13y ago

That information is already in many, many places. In particular, if you have a passport or drivers license it's already available to the government.

aestra 13y ago
@derefr, my sister had a similar thing happen. In the public records department someone possibly mistook a 7 for a 1 and my sister's original birth certificate got issued with the wrong date and was filed wrong. When my parents called about the error, they issued a new one, but never requested the old one back. She has two official birth certificates with two different birth dates. I'm not sure which one the government believes is "correct" but she's been using her real birthday birth certificate on all documents (drivers license, passport...) since.
- girvo 13y ago
  I have a birth certificate with a different last name, as my Dad adopted me (natural father and mother, got married a year later, born with mum's name but now have dad's once I turned about 1.5yrs). I even am pretty certain I have a second birth certificate with mt dad's name, but I'm not certain. I also have my adoption papers, and I left the country I was born in when I was young (7 years). As far as the country I live in is concerned I'm my Father's last name, but have legitimate primary ID with my mother's pre marriage last name. Always wanted to get my spy on and build up a second identity with that. Of course that's highly illegal, so itw only ever been a fun thought exercise :)
derefr 13y ago
In fact, practically, your birth date is only your birth date inasmuch as the government believes that that's the date it is. If a nurse in the pregnancy ward makes a typo, and that's what gets submitted to the government, then that's your birth date, and no arguing. (I say this from a position somewhere in-between: I was born in British Columbia, and my birth date is right on my birth certificate, but wrong on the public-health-plan card you also get issued at birth. I had a very strange time bootstrapping my first credit card...)
- maxerickson 13y ago
  I like the linguistic ambiguity here. Of course, you are talking about a legal birth date and how in practice that is what matters, but really, what the government thinks has no bearing on your actual birth date.