The autofill feature of Apple’s Safari browser appears to be suffering from a date handling error that occasionally leads it to supply an incorrect credit card expiration date when filling out forms.

The supposed issue has been a sore spot for Apple customers dating back at least to 2017, when the author of an Apple Community forum post complained about changes to the month field in the Autofill credit card expiration date when moving between time zones.

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Wherever the bug may reside, Safari’s unreliable handling of credit card dates has kept a complaint-filled Reddit thread going for four years. And the reported month-shifting has been noted in other threads, too.

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