FS#64115 - Registering for forums, expected answer appears to be incorrect?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gregory Lindauer (gplind01) - Sunday, 13 October 2019, 04:04 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Sunday, 13 October 2019, 04:18 GMT
Task Type Support Request
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I cannot register for forums. In my Arch Linux installation, "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha1sum|sed 's/\W//g'" returns the value
2bfb8120080f9f0c4cf6a3d81d13bdeb0ae67c9e8c1da223f2cc67a8

but https://bbs.archlinux.org/register.php?action=register reports "Sorry, your answer was wrong. Try again!".

Additional info:
date -u +%V$(uname) returns
41Linux
date --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.31
sha224sum --version
sha224sum (GNU coreutils) 8.31
sed --version
sed (GNU sed) 4.7

uname -a returns
5.3.5-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 7 19:03:08 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Steps to reproduce: Attempt to register a new user for Arch Forums. (I've tried more than three times, double and triple checking the output I've pasted into the registration form, with no success. Which isn't to say I haven't made an error somewhere...)
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Sunday, 13 October 2019, 04:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  User error: wrong command being run
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Sunday, 13 October 2019, 04:18 GMT
You were told to use sha1sum, so why did you use sha224sum instead?

I can duplicate your incorrect results, by duplicating your incorrect use of sha224sum.

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