Villager Celebrates Birthday on Wrong Date?

[Valzed]

My friend recently started playing ACNL. He had a villager send him their birthday letter. The letter said the villager's birthday was August 20th. My friend asked me what to do for villagers' birthdays so I explained them to him. Yesterday when my friend went into his game the villager was celebrating his birthday - on August 13th. My friend says both his in game date & time are correct as are his 3DS console date & time. I felt bad because I've never seen this so I couldn't help him.

Has anyone ever had this happen or does anyone know why this would happen? Any help will be truly appreciated. Thank you!

 

[stiney]

That's weird--I haven't been playing long, so I haven't seen this, but Thonky has 8/13 as Tabby's birthday and 8/20 as Lopez's birthday--do you know which villager it was?

 

[Valzed]

That's weird--I haven't been playing long, so I haven't seen this, but Thonky has 8/13 as Tabby's birthday and 8/20 as Lopez's birthday--do you know which villager it was?

It was Lopez. When my friend first told me I googled Lopez to double check his bday. To be honest I at first thought my friend had the wrong villager but he sent me a screen shot & it was definitely Lopez.

 

[stiney]

That's super weird! I'm not sure honestly.

 

[Pansear-and-Nana]

Were there any events during that week time?

 

[Rabirin]

Strange. I've never had that happen to me before and the only logical reason that I can come up with is that there was an event falling on that day, so the game might've set Lopez's birthday forward? I think the same thing happened with Tammi when she was brought back in new leaf. Her birthday was changed to the second of april instead of the first.

 

[Valzed]

There was the Fireworks Festival on Sunday but there wasn't anything yesterday. Plus Lopez's birthday letter said it was this coming Monday, the 20th. Now I think there's a Bug Off on Saturday the 18th & another Fireworks Festival on the 19th. Would any of these cause his birthday to be so off? Thanks for the help everyone!

 

[Pansear-and-Nana]

I dont know if this affects this, but has your friend time traveled?

 

[Valzed]

I dont know if this affects this, but has your friend time traveled?

I think he said he changed the date in game when he was first setting it up but then went in and set it to the correct date & time but that was before he received the birthday letter. I don't TT so I didn't even think of that as a possible explanation. Does that actually count a time travelling though?