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see what i mean 41 year old game and people still expect new content 41 years and Winds of Change is still not done! QQ

Guild Wars Celebrates 6 Years in Tyria
Submitted on April 27, 2000 by Kvinna Still need to explain this.

Still need to explain this. Lots of software developers set default dates for when unexpected things occur. It could have been lost in translation, the server could have been acting up when the timestamp was being recorded, or it could be an obscure bug in the code. PHP is a language that is very easy to use and forgiving, so you get tons of people who don't have software development background but can cobble things together in PHP or hack existing PHP scripts (not saying all PHP developers are bad, just that the percentage of bad PHP developers is higher than the percentage of bad, say, C++ or Java developers). It could be something configured strangely on the poster's browser or machine.

As for why that particular date? It could be that this is the "default" date that gets INSERTed into the database when a post is otherwise complete but the timestamp is unintelligible. That date could have special meaning to the developer who built this ... a wedding date, kid's birthday, or it could be the date that the developer almost lost his virginity but got shot down because girls don't dig PHP developers

1/1/1970 is a good default date because it's far in the past relative to how long most IT systems live. A date in 2000 serves the same function because 11 years is about 2 generations of web development technologies.