# Date Type On Custom User Fields

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/date-type-on-custom-user-fields/47357>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** completed\
**Created:** [July 15, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/date-type-on-custom-user-fields/47357 "2016-07-15T14:06:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/date-type-on-custom-user-fields/47357/13 "2021-05-09T02:25:23Z")

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> [@snehbaxi](#):
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> Also is there a way where cake day is customizable to include birth year?

This would be very useful for demographic analysis. On one of our sites we collect “Age Band” by decade for this purpose, which is a bit silly as it degrades by 10% in accuracy per year! We probably should have collected year (or decade) of birth instead but hey, hindsight is 20/20.

It would be nice if DOB was baked into an official plugin like Cakeday, as long as the field was reachable by Polls Breakdown. As a configurable option of course in order to cater for those forums where privacy is rated more highly.

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