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Nov 12, 2004, 12:11 #1
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Google's Cache Date
Anyone know why Google's Cached version of one of my site's would have a retrieval date of December 31, 1969 at 11:59:59PM?
I realize the significance of that date, in computer terms, but am wondering why Google would have that listed? Anyone seen that before?
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Nov 12, 2004, 13:09 #2
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Viflux,
That's strange...I have not seen that before.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is significant about that date?
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Nov 13, 2004, 01:23 #3
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The start time of timestamps on most systems, specifically Unix/Linux, is January 1, 1970 (called the Unix Epoch). This is "time 0" so to say, and 1 second before that probably means some type of overflow or null value in the date field stored for that cache.
Trying to store a date whose value is greater than the number of bytes you allocated for storing the date would result in an overflow, and that would give you a -1 when you save that date. 1 second before the epoch is the date above.Try Improvely, your online marketing dashboard.
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Nov 13, 2004, 11:41 #4
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So basically Google is having technical difficulties. Please stand by.
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Nov 13, 2004, 11:43 #5
It's the Y2K bug. Better start stockpiling food and whatnot.
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