Unable to modify date of birth

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The Basics

  • Nextcloud Server version
    • 32.0.8
  • Operating system and version
    • Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
  • Web server and version (e.g, Apache 2.4.25):
    • Apache/2.4.52
  • Reverse proxy and version _(e.g. nginx 1.27.2)
    • NGINX Proxy Managerv2.11.3
  • PHP version (e.g, 8.3):
    • 8.1.2
  • Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Yes / No):
    • No
  • When did this problem seem to first start?
    • April 18, 2026
  • Installation method (e.g. AlO, NCP, Bare Metal/Archive, etc.)
    • VM running on Unraid Server v.7.2.4
  • Are you using CloudfIare, mod_security, or similar? (Yes / No)
    • Cloudflare

Summary of the issue you are facing:

Attempting to change my DOB from 1957-04-17 → 1957-04-18

Steps to replicate it (hint: details matter!):

  1. Navigate to Personal Settings

  2. Move to Date of Birth field

  3. Move to day field / arrow up / tab away

Log entries

Nextcloud

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{"reqId":"XyejXEL6DWjRTZr5GFSr","level":2,"time":"2026-04-20T20:18:00+00:00","remoteAddr":"192.168.2.114","user":"peter","app":"PHP","method":"GET","url":"/ocs/v2.php/apps/dashboard/api/v1/widgets"
,"scriptName":"/ocs/v2.php","message":"Undefined array key \"node\" at /var/www/nextcloud.mydomain.com/apps/notes/lib/Service/NoteUtil.php#201","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64
) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","version":"32.0.8.2","data":{"app":"PHP"}}
{"reqId":"a5PZ567EQAy8agyqKcAK","level":2,"time":"2026-04-20T20:18:32+00:00","remoteAddr":"192.168.2.114","user":"peter","app":"PHP","method":"GET","url":"/ocs/v2.php/apps/dashboard/api/v1/widgets"
,"scriptName":"/ocs/v2.php","message":"Undefined array key \"node\" at /var/www/nextcloud.mydomain.com/apps/notes/lib/Service/NoteUtil.php#201","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64
) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","version":"32.0.8.2","data":{"app":"PHP"}}
root@nextcloud:/var/www/nextcloud.mydomain.com/data# 

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Funny thing, I just noticed this exact same thing myself about 10 minutes ago. I’m going to go play with occ and see if I can change it (although it was pleasant to see Nextcloud Dashboard wishing me a happy birthday even if it’s a day early!)

So was it your birthday on the 18th? And, thanks for the response by the way. Much appreciated

Tomorrow! Which is why the cute Dashboard banner surprised me. I was relieved to see I hadn’t just put my birthday in wrong a decade ago when I started using Nextcloud and hadn’t noticed it. (And happy belated birthday to you. :birthday_cake:)

Well Happy Birthday young man. Health and Happiness always. Let me know if you ever get the DOB issue sorted out. I also noticed that you cannot reply to the posts here directly from an email client.

I tried issuing this occ command: sudo -u www-data php occ user:setting USERNAME birthday “YYYY-MM-DD”

Unfortunately. That resulted in this error message: The setting does not exist for user “peter”.

@peterbatah by the way, just a reminder: Please don’t forget to update your PHP version when you find the time. PHP 8.1.2 is deprecated. :slight_smile:

Try:

occ user:profile peter birthdate 1957-04-18T00:00:00.000Z

Thank you so much for the prompt response @Forest.328 I used php-updater to move up to version 8.5 but am now getting this error:

This version of Nextcloud is not compatible with PHP>=8.5.
You are currently running 8.5.5.

Looks like 8.3 is the recommended version. Sorry about that

Thank you for chiming in @Kraligor Much appreciated. Updating PHP to version 8.3 seems to have resolved my issue. Navigating to Personal settings DOB right after the update showed the correct DOB. Have a wonderful day. Peter

UPDATE: I appears that the culprit remains. DOB is back to 1957-04-17. Unable to modify it using the occ command that you provided.