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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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Checked the site earlier and saw this:
Anyways, I thought it was amusing. Anyone else see it?
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
Posts: 12294
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god, I can't believe how sexy that new banner looks. even now, long after it's inception.
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Captain_Pollution
Title: Hugh
Joined: Sep 23 2007
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This belongs in Feedback, doesn't it? And I noticed both that, and a few times lately the last post thing's been fucking up. Meh.
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 <Drew_Linky> Well, I've eaten vegetables all of once in my life.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
Posts: 5316
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Well I don't really consider it feedback although I thought about posting it there, but if a mod wants to move it, I suppose they could.
As far as the date, is that just random or what?
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
Posts: 4098
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...we've traveled through time?
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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i never pay attention to the date/time.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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| Black Zarak wrote: |
| ...we've traveled through time? |
Although the "official" answer will probably be some sort of lame cover up involving database errors and possibly some swamp gas and a weather balloon, I'm siding with BZ.
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Fernin
Title: Comic Author
Joined: Dec 12 2008
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Sucks that we arrived on December 31st, I'm told 1969 was a good year.
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sidewaydriver
2010 SLF Tag Champ
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Joined: May 11 2008
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That's obviously photoshopped, I can tell by the pixels.
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Doddsino
Joined: Oct 01 2009
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I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not. 
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sidewaydriver
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I am very serious.
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
Posts: 12294
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the name of the most recent poster is missing.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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When the most recent post in a thread has been deleted, it causes a glitch where the "Last Post" date gets displayed as Dec 31, 1969. The way the system is coded, it can't be allowed to display assign a null date without causing massive fuck-ups, so someone decided Dec 31, 1969 would be a good date to use. Why? I don't know.
Since there is no longer a poster, the poster name is null and displayed as a blank space.
When the most recent post in a thread is also the most recent post on a forum and it gets deleted, it fucks up the "Last Post" date for the forum as well.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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See, something nefarious is afoot.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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| sidewaydriver wrote: |
| That's obviously photoshopped, I can tell by the pixels. |
The pixels are distorted because the image is being compressed. If you browse to the full URL of his image, there is no image manipulation:
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/8073/sydlexia.png
| Syd Lexia wrote: |
When the most recent post in a thread has been deleted, it causes a glitch where the "Last Post" date gets displayed as Dec 31, 1969. The way the system is coded, it can't be allowed to display assign a null date without causing massive fuck-ups, so someone decided Dec 31, 1969 would be a good date to use. Why? I don't know.
Since there is no longer a poster, the poster name is null and displayed as a blank space.
When the most recent post in a thread is also the most recent post on a forum and it gets deleted, it fucks up the "Last Post" date for the forum as well. |
Syd, the null date is equated to a date of 0, that is why the Dec 31, 1969 is interpreted.
Unix was released in 1970. On Unix based systems math for time functions is based around the idea that before 1970 time was negative.
Therefore December 31, 1969 23:59:59 is recognized on Unix systems mathematically as 0.
So what is up with the 6PM?
Time is based on time zones. So whoever took the screenshot is at -6 from GMT.
If you want more info, there is a good writeup here: http://www.lisaksimone.com/phoneonfire/2009/04/22/yo-today-is-december-31-1969/
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sidewaydriver
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I was just kidding.
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Shake it, Quake it, Space Kaboom. |
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
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I was pretty much talking out of my ass. I knew I was more or less giving an almost correct explanation, but I was too lazy to look it up.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
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| So what got deleted? |
18. You are not the master of unlocking.
If a thread you started is locked or deleted, it is because the moderators felt that it was inappropriate. If you feel that the thread was unfairly locked, you may contact any or all of the moderators and plead your case. DO NOT START A NEW THREAD ASKING WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OLD ONE. Doing so will result in a mandatory three day ban from the forums. Repeat offenders will receive increasingly severe punishments up to and including banning.
...just kidding 
That's actually a pretty interesting glitch. when I first saw this, I had assumed Syd's nostalgia for the past had finally reached critical mass, creating an Event Horizon centered on the forums that sent us all back into nicer and simpler times.
But the clock issue explains it too. Oh well.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Whoops, sorry I wasn't even thinking, I've been up for far too long. 
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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It could have been deleted by the original poster.
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
Posts: 12294
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yeah, but if she doesn't flex her mod muscles every now and then, she will become fat and lethargic.
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
Joined: Feb 01 2006
Location: Phyrexia
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But then her flesh will be so tender for the harvesting!
...I've said too much.
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SoldierHawk
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