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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 (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!



Wouldn't the drivers license have the expiration date printed on it?


It's not the license expiration date is just the annual date that you need to pay your license renewal fees on.


What if the expiration date doesn't exist? Does the license just never expire? Wouldn't that be funny?


I mean, they could have paid it any day before then, right?

I would have just gone on the 28th and be done with it.


Let me tell you about this human trait called procrastination.... actually I just have to do something first


Pay By = Wait Until


Sure...if you knew about this bug in the system.


If 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)




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