Date of Birth field DOB

Last updated on

30 April 2025

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To create a date of birth field in Drupal 6.

Navigate to add a new field for your content type
Administer > Content management > Content types > manage fields
For the field type select datetime
On the following field settings form. Check that the field Granularity includes as much detail as you'd like to collect.

Users will now be able to a date birth when creating or editing this node type.

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