Date Problems

[1288gaje]

hi...
i've just experienced a little problem today
this is what i got, in the open forum right now


01 Jan 1970 01:00


yes, the date...and who could post since 1st jan 1970 for open forum?
when it's being constantly used?

anybody else having this problem? [/quote]

[ianmacmillan]

Hope you're wearing you're bell bottoms and gold medalion.

[Lad491]

Most modern motherboards have a reference date of 01011970 and the date defaults to that if the cmos battery, which keeps your system alive when its not powered on, runs out.

I had this recently with my laptop when it suddenly started telling me lots of software had problems as they were apparently installed on a date not yet reached. Easyily fixed

[NeutronIC]

1/1/1970 00:00:00 is known as the "epoch" - in "unix" time it is represented by the simple number zero. Every time thereafter is represented in unix time as the number of seconds since that date.

A few seconds ago it was 1117228270 seconds after the epoch, no magic to working it out, it's part of the operating systems - all I typed on my machine was:

perl -e "print time()"

Any time you see 1/1/1970 appearing that means that a zero or null value is in the date field, that's all. Where did you see it ?

Matt.

[1288gaje]

i saw it in the open forum

[NickBrad]

I don't know if this linked or not, but I seem to be having severe problems with the forum today.

When I visit the index page, the new posts icon only seems to show between when I visited last night and when I first came here this morning, despite having revisited many times today.
Also, when I read the new posts in one thread in any section then return to the "lobby" for that section, it shows no new posts for any other thread unless I return to the index and go back to that section.

It's getting very annoying to say the least.