17-09-2001 18:19									#1
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I know, I know, I was out far too long before my comeback to remember the reasons behind the subscription year 1969 for the "Elders", the Founding Fathers? ( the Pentagon Internet Originators perhaps? )

No, really why the 30 years gap between your select group and the rest of us ? That reminds me the same time travel gap from the Powers flicks.

	17-09-2001 19:39									#2
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It has to do with 1/1/1970 being the default registration date if none is selected - this applies to all who joined Apolyton before 2/15/99 and if they have a time zone selected that is before GMT, then the registration date is listed as 12/31/1969.

	17-09-2001 22:12									#3
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I see the 'elders' (including my own ) reg date as 1970. 3 years or 30 years they all roll into one!

It also makes the post per day counter inordinately small.

	17-09-2001 22:19									#4
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Thanks for the answer, Kyller. Very odd though.

quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch It also makes the post per day counter inordinately small.

And I thought that mine was small! Very odd to see a Prince or King with a 0.0x posts/day.

	18-09-2001 02:09									#5
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Yeah baby, yeah!

	18-09-2001 02:38									#6
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We are just f*cking veterans!

	18-09-2001 03:25									#7
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Yep, I've been lurking around for quite some time now.

	18-09-2001 13:49									#8
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quote: Originally posted by GP We are just f*cking veterans!

Do we get any days of honour on the Poly calender?

	18-09-2001 15:07									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch Do we get any days of honour on the Poly calender?

On the site birthdays, our posts count double and newbies have to refer to us as "Sir".

	18-09-2001 15:42									#10
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Oh, here we are, all the old farts fighting over that orb, when they know the newer generation such as myself wields the axe nowadays

	18-09-2001 16:03									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison Oh, here we are, all the old farts fighting over that orb, when they know the newer generation such as myself wields the axe nowadays

Newbie! Newbie!



DL! DL! DL!



Ban him! Ban him!

	18-09-2001 16:19									#12
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yes, Sir!!!

	18-09-2001 17:00									#13
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ACtually if I'm not mistaken the problem is that their date is undefined and the value is 0.

As far as I remember, in most web programming language, 1/1/1970 is the date associated with 0.

That is because they represent the date by counting the seconds since 1/1/1970.

Try to convert 0 seconds in PHP or JavaScript to a date....

	18-09-2001 19:03									#14
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On unix systems, the "beginning of time" is Jan 1 1970. Time is recorded by counting the seconds after that (I believe just last week we passed the 1 billionth second).

Since the time is 0 for those posters...Jan 1 1970 + 0 seconds == Jan 1 1970.

Of course if you've got the forum editing times due to your timezone (mine is -7), you'll get Dec 1969.

	19-09-2001 08:33									#15
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I like pointing to my posts per day and saying how I can't possibly be a spammer .

	19-09-2001 20:47									#16
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I guess there is no way to set the default to be the inception date of Apolyton?

S'pose if there were, then then it would be.

	19-09-2001 21:04									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch I guess there is no way to set the default to be the inception date of Apolyton? S'pose if there were, then then it would be.

they wouldn't change it if they could, they like being different than everyone else. THe old geezers like to think it makes them look important. to me, they just look old.

	19-09-2001 21:24									#18
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quote: Originally posted by H Tower they wouldn't change it if they could, they like being different than everyone else. THe old geezers like to think it makes them look important. to me, they just look old.

You think I look old. Thanx.

I'll have you know I have been posting since before I was born!

	19-09-2001 21:27									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Big Crunch You think I look old. Thanx. I'll have you know I have been posting since before I was born!

Exactly like Powers

	19-09-2001 21:55									#20
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quote: they wouldn't change it if they could, they like being different than everyone else. THe old geezers like to think it makes them look important. to me, they just look old.

Well, I must say that this is the first time I've been referred to as an "old geezer," and I don't expect to be called that for a long time...

	21-09-2001 03:01									#21
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ok, ok, so maybe i overstated things a little. maybe

	21-09-2001 20:03									#22
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How come there are large numbers of old geezers (1970) registered, that have not once posted a thing?

	21-09-2001 22:58									#23
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I'm probably an older git that a lot of the so called old timers so how about adjusting my registration date. That way I can use my cool avatar-in-waiting

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	21-09-2001 23:45									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Gasmaske I'm probably an older git that a lot of the so called old timers so how about adjusting my registration date.

That reg date belongs to your DL, perhaps you could use the name and logo on your original log-in.

	22-09-2001 09:22									#25
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Its not a DL its a new name, I hope you are not confusing me with someone else

I was referring to my real age not the age of my log in