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Technorati, you never fail to amuse
Technorati, you never fail to amuse
Aug
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01:22 pm
james_davis_nicoll
Seen over on technorati:
14121 days ago in Torque Control
Or just under 40 years ago.
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That would be January 1, 1970, the beginning of the Unix epoch. They're likely storing timestamps in the seconds-since-midnight-January-1-1970-GMT ('time_t') way, and an empty or 0 value snuck into their data.
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