1969?

[InklingElf]

Maybe this isn't worth wasting a thread on but I've just been browsing the member list and some of the 'last visited' dates are 1969 -- which can't be true since such members that exist are 'Aragorn2002' and so forth.

Of all trivialities I would like to have an answer on this one phenomenon :rolleyes:

[Son of Númenor]

That date was chosen (I assume arbitrarily) for all those members who have not signed on since the forum underwent its 'corporate' renovation.

The Internet has, of course, not been in existence since 1969 (when the B-W was 4 years old :D).

[Arie]

InklingElf you're right! I just logged on....and I haven't for so many months and it says I last visited 12-31-1969.

I guess it is due to the renovation it looks different since the last time I was here.

[The Perky Ent]

But why 1969? Is there some mystery behind it? Some past waiting to be dug up? It's possible...but then it's also possible that it was the first date that came to the Barrow-Wight's mind

[mark12_30]

Zero time in UNIX is 1 January 1970. One second less than that, or an un-entered/ nonexistent time, comes up in UNIX as 23:59 Dec 31, 1969.

Now you know why people worried about Y2K, and why they still worry about UNIX time rollover. Imagine if you had to pay tax going back to the last time you logged on to the barrow downs. Thirty-four years back taxes, plus interest. Cash, please.

Fortunately the Barrow Wight doesn't collect taxes.

[InklingElf]

Zero time in UNIX is 1 January 1970. One second less than that, or an un-entered/ nonexistent time, comes up in UNIX as 23:59 Dec 31, 1969.

Now you know why people worried about Y2K, and why they still worry about UNIX time rollover. Imagine if you had to pay tax going back to the last time you logged on to the barrow downs. Thirty-four years back taxes, plus interest. Cash, please.

Fortunately the Barrow Wight doesn't collect taxes.

Do you mark? heheheh. I would never have known that -- and thank goodness for the non-tax-collecting Barrow Wight... In fact I wonder if there is another explanation (a birthdate perhaps) -- not that this one isn't satisfactory.

[The Perky Ent]

Um...well, we landed on the moon in 1969, so maybe it's the start of something. Maybe the beginning of something great