You guys fell for memebait

Stores the user’s birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

And it can be used to verify how old you are.

How?

This is the part I’m hung up on. What actually physically happens to make me enter my real birthday in the systemd user field, and verify it’s actually my birthday?

January 1 1900 has been my official online birthday forever.

I was born on January 1st, whichever year before 2000 that I first click on.
Right? I’m not scrolling that far down. Somewhere within the last 18 years is good enough.
within??
I’m a dog on the Internet. Don’t ask me to do math.
Well there’s no arguing with that…