Open to speculation

[superm18]

As I was going through my daily routine of looking for new/updated mods, I came across this:

Not sure what to thinks of it, but I bet some of you can come up with some kind of crazy story.

[Temstar]

It's the start of the unix epoch, the server running the forum must be running a posix OS (probably Linux) and for some reason the timestamp for the two posts have zero values, which translate to zero seconds after the unix epoch.

I work on Solaris and Linux as part of my day job.

Edited February 16, 2016 by Temstar

[Tfin]

Obviously, Mr. Guest wants you to brick your iPhone to find out about these.

[superm18]

17 minutes ago, Temstar said:

It's the start of the unix epoch, the server running the forum must be running a posix OS (probably Linux) and for some reason the timestamp for the two posts have zero values, which translate to zero seconds after the unix epoch.

I work on Solaris and Linux as part of my day job.

I just love smart people

[Tfin]

1 hour ago, Temstar said:

It's the start of the unix epoch, the server running the forum must be running a posix OS (probably Linux) and for some reason the timestamp for the two posts have zero values, which translate to zero seconds after the unix epoch.

I work on Solaris and Linux as part of my day job.

Did you go to the posts and look yourself? I did look, and for me the dates on them are 31 Dec 1969.

[p1t1o]

2 minutes ago, Tfin said:

Did you go to the posts and look yourself? I did look, and for me the dates on them are 31 Dec 1969.

At midnight by any chance?

[Temstar]

17 minutes ago, Tfin said:

Did you go to the posts and look yourself? I did look, and for me the dates on them are 31 Dec 1969.

Unlike humans who like to count from year 1, POSIX count time from zero, and with the sign bit it creates a situation where the "first moment of the Age of Unix" is also the "last moment before the Age of Unix". Both times are identical and can be represented either as "midnight, 31 Dec 1969" (ie midnight at end of the day) or "midnight, 1 Jan 1970" (midnight at the start of the day) depending on specific software implementation.

In fact "midnight" is very ambiguous even for us humans. If you tell someone to meet you in a dark alley at "midnight, 16th Feb, 2016" there are two different ways to interpret that. However if you told him instead "meet me at a dark alley, 1455580800 seconds after Unix epoch" there is no confusion.

Edited February 16, 2016 by Temstar

[Tantalus]

26 minutes ago, Temstar said:

meet me at a dark alley, 1455580800 seconds after Unix epoch" there is no confusion.

Best way to mess up a renezvouz 

[Vanamonde]

Some date and OP information on older threads got scrambled when we moved to the new forum software. 

[sal_vager]

As this is pretty clearly to do with forum software and not KSP it's now in the Kerbal network

[swjr-swis]

On 2/16/2016 at 10:34 AM, superm18 said:

Not sure what to thinks of it, but I bet some of you can come up with some kind of crazy story.

Well poo, I came to be entertained with some crazy stories, and was disappointed by completely accurate and factual data. Pfff.

Since no one else seems to be daring: I think this is proof that Kerbals made it to the moon before we did, and probably have been responsible for at least part of the UFOs reported in the past century!

Their space program, by the date of 1969, was already advanced enough to have interplanetary mining equipment, as uncovered in these top secret documents. These documents also show their use of atmospheric and submarine craft, which undoubtedly have been used to observe us humans here on Earth.

And here is the kicker: Squad nefariously already knew about it back then!! Not only that, but they have been keeping it a secret, and still today try to hide this knowledge from us (just click on them, the actual documents were deleted!!!).

They are among us, I tell you. And Squad knows!!

[superm18]

1 minute ago, swjr-swis said:

Well poo, I came to be entertained with some crazy stories, and was disappointed by completely accurate and factual data. Pfff.

Since no one else seems to be daring: I think this is proof that Kerbals made it to the moon before we did, and probably have been responsible for at least part of the UFOs reported in the past century!

Their space program, by the date of 1969, was already advanced enough to have interplanetary mining equipment, as uncovered in these top secret documents. These documents also show their use of atmospheric and submarine craft, which undoubtedly have been used to observe us humans here on Earth.

And here is the kicker: Squad nefariously already knew about it back then!! Not only that, but they have been keeping it a secret, and still today try to hide this knowledge from us (just click on them, the actual documents were deleted!!!).

They are among us, I tell you. And Squad knows!!

There we go! That's more like it

[Red Iron Crown]

On 2/16/2016 at 8:04 AM, Tfin said:

Did you go to the posts and look yourself? I did look, and for me the dates on them are 31 Dec 1969.

Timezones. The start of the epoch is 00:00UTC, 1 Jan 1970, if you live west of the UTC timezone it will show as some time from 31 Dec 1969.