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Presumably, the script mistook "34" for the year (even though it was hyphenated) and sought to remove the comma where it would not belong in DMY format; however, the comma is needed to separate the age from the date where this might otherwise be confusing to parse the sentence. I assume this is too advanced for the script to distinguish.
One comma between the day and year, and one comma after the year (unless some other puncutation follows the year). See Chicago Manual of Style, Section 6.46: "In the month-day-year style of dates, the style most commonly used in the United States and hence now recommended by Chicago, commas are used both before and after the year.
Similarly, the term "UTC" is not appropriate for dates before this system was adopted in 1960; [2] Universal Time (UT) is the appropriate term for the mean time at the prime meridian (Greenwich) when it is unnecessary to specify the precise definition of the time scale. Be sure to show the UTC or offset appropriate to the clock time in use at ...
I get a leftover comma when my preferences transform the comma'd style to the non comma'd. I'm referring to the following advice: If a date includes both a month and a day, then the date should almost always be linked to allow readers’ date preferences to work, displaying the reader’s chosen format. The day and the month should be linked ...
The difference between an Oxford comma and a regular comma is that an Oxford comma refers to the final comma in a series that would come before the last conjunction of a sentence.
For example, "Stop!" has the punctuation inside the quotation marks because the word "stop" is said with emphasis. However, when using "scare quotes", the comma goes outside. Other examples: Arthur said the situation was "deplorable". (The full stop (period) is not part of the quotation.)
The comma-free approach is often used with partial quotations: The report observed "a 45% reduction in transmission rate". A comma is required when it would be present in the same construction if none of the material were a quotation: In Margaret Mead's view, "we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities" to enrich our culture.
Merriam-Webster's Guide to Punctuation and Style (pp. 23, 129, 131; US) gives both styles (comma listed first, so presumably preferred), but dates to 2001. Likewise with The New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage (p. 257); published in 1994, it favored the comma by default, but said to follow the subject's preference.