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Shady Guy

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2010

05 May 2011 at 09:23 - 1
Closed .

jcegt87

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2008

P/E

05 May 2011 at 09:37 - 2
see what i mean 41 year old game and people still expect new content


lol but prob has something to do with the server reset date or something *shrugs*

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

05 May 2011 at 09:48 - 3
Link?

Anyway, Jan 1 1970 is the date of the UNIX epoch, so there was probably just a bug with the software that made it print that time instead of the current time.

Yinsang

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2011

Amsterdam

For The Motherland

A/Rt

05 May 2011 at 10:27 - 4
Same sort of thing is on the main page: Quote:
Guild Wars Celebrates 6 Years in Tyria
Submitted on April 27, 2000 by Kvinna

Tom Swift

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2007

05 May 2011 at 13:04 - 5
Quote:
Originally Posted by jcegt87 View Post
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

Arduin

Arduin

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

The Netherlands

Limburgse Jagers [LJ]

R/

05 May 2011 at 13:05 - 6
If you look closer at that post, you can see it isn't posted by anyone.

_Aphotic_

_Aphotic_

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2010

Muppets Versus Muppets [MvM]

P/A

05 May 2011 at 16:35 - 7
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yinsang View Post
Guild Wars Celebrates 6 Years in Tyria
Submitted on April 27, 2000 by Kvinna Still need to explain this.

dudemonkey

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2011

NYC

DOTR

W/

05 May 2011 at 16:49 - 8
Quote:
Originally Posted by _Aphotic_ View Post
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.

jensyea

jensyea

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2009

The Underworld

Mo/

05 May 2011 at 16:59 - 9
just a random guess here but maybe something wrong with the timesettings on the posters/readers pc?

Tal L

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2008

05 May 2011 at 17:31 - 10
Back to the future ftw. Also check that sometimes guild invitation to alliances get wrong dates to 1984 or 2000.

Kvinna

Kvinna

Administrator

Join Date: Aug 2009

05 May 2011 at 19:57 - 11
It looks like that first thread might have been created by an account that was deleted at some point and it messed something up. As for the front page, GWG uses a really, really crappy and old CMS so the dates will continue to be borked until we get some upgrades.

When will that be? I'm not entirely sure. We've been waiting patiently, and we've finally started on GW2G, so GWG updates should come shortly after that.