Does anybody know why people are posting empty posts on Twitter with the date of 12/31/69? It’s so annoying because I can’t access the news over this moronic prank.
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Does anybody know why people are posting empty posts on Twitter with the date of 12/31/69? It’s so annoying because I can’t access the news over this moronic prank.
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It’s a bug. Unix time starts at 1/1/1970 00:00:00 UTC. Depending on your time zone, you may see 1/1/1970 or 12/31/1969.
A common way to store date time data is to use epoch time which is the number of seconds (or miliseconds) since Jan 1 1970, they probably have -1 there for some reason. Probably transferred data from Excel. It is a common “off by one” error
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No idea. But we are coming up on the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, (12/16/73). Anybody planning a party? Parade? Polite civic mention?
(crickets)
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I am not on twitter, so can only guess. However, 12/31/69 is a date that a system will default to when it cannot figure out what date it is (Unix time starts at 1/1/1970 00:00:00 UTC which is 12/31/69 in some of the time zones). So, either this is some kind of a bug in the software they need to fix, or a prank on Elon (Perhaps an elaborate way to tell a system admin that he is incompetent? No idea…)
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It’s deeply annoying because I count on this app for my news and now I can’t get any.
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