EarlG- what is with the Dec 1969 posts on Latest Discussions?

[niyad]

Several "posts" showing only the "trash" icon, and dec 1969.

[GreenWave]

1. I was searching too. Found no such member exists.

[niyad]

3. There is no such member. There is a glitch somewhere, because I

occasionally see the dec 1969 as supposed posts in people's profiles.

[GreenWave]

4. This only adds to the intrigue.

A promise to land a man on the Moon by Dec, 1969?

[dweller]

2. Curious also

It happened the other day as well.
If I trash the thread, it crashes my browser


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[dweller]

5. OMG ! It's Agent Mike !1!

He dressed so Dec 1969
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[Hotler]

15. Or comrade Ivan, he's sort of new here.

Hi Ivan.

[EarlG]

6. Just more minor glitches by the looks of it

Possibly those are self-deleted or locked threads which have not been correctly cleared off the Latest page. The reason they say Dec 1969 is quite interesting actually...

Unix time is currently defined as the number of non-leap seconds which have passed since 00:00:00 UTC on Thursday, 1 January 1970, which is referred to as the Unix epoch. Unix time is typically encoded as a signed integer. The Unix time 0 is exactly midnight UTC on 1 January 1970, with Unix time incrementing by 1 for every non-leap second after this.

If the software is supposed to print a date but can't find one, it will fall back to displaying 00:00:00 UTC, but since we're in the western hemisphere the timestamp is actually several hours earlier depending on which time zone you're in, so it renders for us as Dec 31 1969.

Anyway, I don't think this is anything to worry about, it looks like there's a bug with items not getting cleared correctly from the Latest page if they're not supposed to be there. They should just disappear, but instead they're still showing up as blank threads.

I'll let Elad know about this tomorrow, he should be able to clear it up. Thanks for the report.

[niyad]

8. That is very interesting indeed. As I indicated on one of these threads,

I have seen that Dec 1969 occasionally on people's profile pages, where posts usually go. This is the first time I have seen it in Latest Duscussions. Isn't technology grand?

[scipan]

9. Oh, THE END OF THE WORLD will occur in 2038

when unix time overflows.

Planes falling out of the sky, computers locking up or spouting gibberish...

Hey maybe that's what happened to Voyager, since its clock runs faster due to relativity...

I kinda wish I could be still here to see it.

[marble falls]

10. I'm ready for it. I bought up all the Y2K stuff.

[scipan]

11. Go out with a bang? Or a whimper like Y2K?

[marble falls]

13. This was a bonus, I was set up for Y3K.

[DBoon]

14. and if you hold your mouse over the image placeholder

the text is "send to trash"

Which is consistent with what EarlG says

[Think. Again.]

7. This also happened months ago...

...I jokingly suggested perhaps we have hit on the AI singularity already, but EarlG explained it was something very boring instead, but I forget what.

[GreenWave]

12. This got me thinking about "particles" traveling backwards in time.

Particles are in parenthesis because my theory that particles cannot exist and must be compacted waves with exotic properties was graciously answered by a Mr. Stephen Hawking who wrote "Particles are what we tell ourselves exist so we can feel comfortable living in a solid universe that is anything but."

Anyway tachyons were thought to travel backwards in time...

https://www.space.com/tachyons-facts-about-particles