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Last Activity 1970?

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  • 18-06-2008 10:40am
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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,510 ✭✭✭✭


    Whats the story with people who most regularly, yet it says last activity 01-01-1970 and 0 posts?
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    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Y2k-30 bug :-\


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,510 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    That'll be it so!! Stoopid flux capacitator!!


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Link to these ppl?


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Microwave & Time-Machine Forum.


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    Hitchhiker's Guide to...
    Registered Users Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Hitchhiker's Guide to...


    antodeco wrote: »
    Whats the story with people who most regularly, yet it says last activity 01-01-1970 and 0 posts?

    damn hippies, stuck in the 60s. they couldn't handle the age of disco

    / disco stu disapproves

    discostu.jpg


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    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    antodeco wrote: »
    Whats the story with people who most regularly, yet it says last activity 01-01-1970 and 0 posts?

    I've no idea who or what you're talking about.


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    Heisenberg.
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    This post has been deleted.


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    IRLConor
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    1970-01-01 is a magic date on UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. Time is represented as an offset from 1970-01-01 00:00:00, usually as a number of seconds.

    So, if the time recorded for the last activity is 0 (perhaps that's the default value), then it'll show up as 1970-01-01.


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    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    There is nobody who has 0 postcount, has a last activity date of 01-01-1970 that has posted in the last year :)

    There's a few 1998 and otherwise inactive accounts that show up like that due to something funky that happened before I started working here.

    Talliesin has become somewhat attached to his particular bug afaik, so it goes unfixed.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    'It was like that when I got here' - I like.

    Now you've to find the guy who doesn't speak English and you're sorted.


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,510 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Heres just a few :D

    Member Profile
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    CuLT, seems that you're right. Damn them time travelling bugs :(


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    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    CuLT wrote: »
    Talliesin has become somewhat attached to his particular bug afaik, so it goes unfixed.
    It was the only compensation for all my unsaved PMs being deleted at the same time :(


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    Ron DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC


    antodeco wrote: »
    Whats the story with people who most regularly, yet it says last activity 01-01-1970 and 0 posts?
    antodeco wrote: »
    Heres just a few :D

    Member Profile
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    None of those people post regularly. Maybe they got so annoyed with the fact that their last active date was wrong that they stopped posting.


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    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    bug.png


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    D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭D


    Basically if someone signed up when boards first started and then when they moved database they didn't post after that they are set with 0 posts and 1970 join date.

    In other words "A wizard did it."


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