{"id":18607,"date":"2025-05-09T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/?p=18607"},"modified":"2025-05-09T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:42:08","slug":"account-help-adding-your-birthdate-accessing-a-year-of-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/account-help-adding-your-birthdate-accessing-a-year-of-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Account Help: Adding Your Birthdate\/Accessing a Year of Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Heinlein Society asks for your birthdate to have some demographic information about its members and website users. We have found that some operating systems (Android in particular) have a non-intuitive way to change your year of birth.<\/p>\n

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\n\"Initial<\/a>Your next step to change the year will be to click on the year (circled in red in the image).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nNext, in the scroll wheel window that appears, ‘spin’ the year to the appropriate year and click the year you want.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After that, you will be back to what looks similar to the first picture and you may click on the < or > as appropriate to get the right month, finally clicking on the date.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click on “Set” and the full date you have picked should show in the “Date of Birth” field.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We hope this information is helpful to you. If you need assistance please contact our volunteers at operations@heinleinsociety.org. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Heinlein Society asks for your birthdate to have some demographic information about its members and website users. We have found that some operating systems (Android in particular) have a non-intuitive way to change your year of birth. If you are presented with this: Your next step to change the year will be to click…
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