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    Standard Member Candy Cane
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    is there a reason that all of the games that have ended all ended at "1969-12-31 17:00"


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    Standard Member RiskyBack
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    Oh, that is a magical computer date!  I believe it is when Skynet first went Online...wait, that's not right.  Nevermind.

    Actually that is some sort of default computer date for reasons I don't know.  If anyone can fill me in on this bit o' trivia I would appreciate it, and if someone could also actually answer CC's question rather than being snarky and then asking another question, that would be great.

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    Standard Member Trabi
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    I should have looked at this board before posting the same question in the General Forum.

    I can explain the significance of the date, kind of.  Most, if not all, versions of UNIX keep track of time as a counter of the number of seconds since the epoch.  The epoch is defined as Jan. 1st, 1970.  You will notice, that the finished games are one day before this.  I am not sure how a UNIX based computer could hold a representation of any date before the epoch, but this is too much of a coincidence to be ignored.


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    Commander In Chief tom tom is offline now
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    Where are you seeing that time displayed?


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    Standard Member Candy Cane
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    tom wrote:

    Where are you seeing that time displayed?


    'my games' list.  'finished' filter.  'finished' time category.


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    Commander In Chief tom tom is offline now
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    Has been fixed thanks.


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