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[–]pokelord13 0 points1 point ago

I could never wrap my head over why people set the earliest date to 1969. Video games weren't even invented at that time. Even Pong was first released in 1972

[–]JonnyShips 1 point2 points ago

Its a 0 in the database - possibly corruption. Unix time measures the seconds since Jan 1st 1970. Granted the less lazy approach would be to print "No time recorded".

[–]CanisLupusAlbus 0 points1 point ago

dcHEAD921, pokelord13, it's due to the epoch used by the underlying operating system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(reference_date)#Computing

Specifically, a lot of servers are running Unix or a derivative thereof, which measures time based on 00:00:00 UTC, 1970/01/01. Since you (probably) live west of the UTC timezone, your clock's earliest date is a few hours earlier on December 31, 1969.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

Edit - typos!