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by sassy koala » Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:16 pm
sometimes when I log in and look at the forum index and over on the right where it says who last posted in that forum and what date and time, sometimes it says:
31 Dec 1969
18:00
I noticed it when I logged in today on the mod forumand have occasionally noticed it on the main BUS forum.
is this a me issue or is this a software issue?
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by ChaseThisLight » Tue Nov 02, 2004 5:11 pm
It's a software issue. Periodically there have been posts about this...I wouldn't worry about it.
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by Jomomma » Tue Nov 02, 2004 9:51 pm
Let's do the time warp again!!!!!!!!
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by guest11 » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:02 am
Apparantly the software (can't remember what software, but it's the one that control the times) works on counting up from 1st January 1970. When a post is deleted, the time index (it's a discrete integer) gets set to 0 or -1 (-1 in this case since it was 31st Dec, 1969).
I find tech stuff like this interesting.
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by sassy koala » Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:19 pm
oh weird.
you rock dude.
thanks
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by guest11 » Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:11 pm
Interesting.... 31st December 1969, 18:00:00 converts to -21600. I can understand why it'd be set to 0 or -1, but not -21600!
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by sine nomine » Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:04 pm
21600 seconds equal 6 hours. 18.00 is six hours before midnight. weird,t hough; i wonder if time codes go backward (i doubt that) or if the programmer just didn't allow for that case?
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