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Killswitch
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Posted: 27th Oct 2005 02:48
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I was just searching the interweb to see if American Dad had been released on DVD, and I got this (honest to god I didn't alter the image in any way other than circling the specific area of interest):



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UFO
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Posted: 27th Oct 2005 02:59
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?
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Mikey P
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Posted: 27th Oct 2005 03:02
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Probably some coding error

All time on the computer is like in seconds since 1/1/70, and the date in the screenshot would be -1.. Something like that *shrugs*

Nice screenie though

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Jeku
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Posted: 27th Oct 2005 03:59
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@Mikey P - That is an interesting answer, and it makes perfect sense. Never thought about that -1 is usually an error code.

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David T
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Posted: 27th Oct 2005 05:15
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Wow, Amazon.com looks so much more busy than our Amazon.

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come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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Dazzag
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Posted: 27th Oct 2005 10:12 Edited at: 27th Oct 2005 10:26
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch So basically dates are stored as numbers (number of days - well goes lower than that after decimal place, but 1 is a day - since date X). If the first date is 1st Jan 1970 then to convert the date to a proper user date would show as 31st Dec 1969 if -1 is returned (error). ie. They are not capturing the error properly I reckon.

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John Y
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Posted: 27th Oct 2005 10:47
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Explains why the profits are down, everyone thinks they are selling old items.


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Posted: 27th Oct 2005 15:19
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I thought we would've got some more interesting explinations than that, but what the hell.

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Quote: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch So basically dates are stored as numbers (number of days - well goes lower than that after decimal place, but 1 is a day - since date X). If the first date is 1st Jan 1970 then to convert the date to a proper user date would show as 31st Dec 1969 if -1 is returned (error). ie. They are not capturing the error properly I reckon."


Might be using a different timestamp for PHP, but I know PHP's unix timestamp is counted as 1 = second.

I imagine the -1 is simply a value the database holds as "null". And somebody's accidentally forgotten to set a date after setting a "has release date" flag.

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come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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