{"id":53793,"date":"2026-11-06T18:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=53793"},"modified":"2026-11-06T18:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T23:58:19","slug":"safaris-autofill-feature-may-be-distorting-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/06\/safaris-autofill-feature-may-be-distorting-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari&rsquo;s Autofill Feature May Be Distorting Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/applications\/2026\/11\/06\/safaris-autofill-feature-may-be-distorting-time\/5308006\">Thomas Claburn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/applications\/2026\/11\/06\/safaris-autofill-feature-may-be-distorting-time\/5308006\">\n<p>The autofill feature of Apple&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/8026412\">post<\/a> complained about changes to the month field in the Autofill credit card expiration date when moving between time zones.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Wherever the bug may reside, Safari&rsquo;s unreliable handling of credit card dates has kept <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Safari\/comments\/10qcx9g\/why_does_safari_remember_credit_card_expiry_dates\/\">a complaint-filled Reddit thread<\/a> going for four years. And the reported month-shifting has been noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/applehelp\/comments\/1s0bw31\/credit_card_autofill_info_changed_expiry_date\/\">other<\/a> threads, too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/05\/switch-to-safari\/\">Switch to Safari<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/10\/storing-times-for-human-events\/\">Storing Times for Human Events<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/18\/storing-the-time-zone-with-a-date\/\">Storing the Time Zone With a Date<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Claburn: The autofill feature of Apple&rsquo;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-11-06T23:58:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"8d0d07b8-eaac-4113-a0ca-dfb0592fb566","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-11-06T23:58:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AjQ0HuOqsQROgyt-wWS-1Zg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,1195,31,2887,30,2784,103,364],"class_list":["post-53793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-financial","tag-ios","tag-ios-27","tag-mac","tag-macos-27","tag-safari","tag-time"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53794,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53793\/revisions\/53794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}