The field “Date Accepted by State Registrar” is not part of the information. That is a field PROGRAMMED into the computer. The date is the information ... THe computer program thinks it is different. Why?
I can think of several reasons:
- There are actually two database fields, not one. The date and a filing status, which could indicate 'filed', 'accepted', and possibly other values.
- They reprogrammed the computer to use different language. If that's the case, I would expect to see the language change on all certs issued after some point in time.
- There is more than one computer, and they are not all running exactly the same version of the software.
I would vote for the first reason. But given the overall incompetence of the Hawaii bureaucrats, either of the other two reasons would not shock me.