# Odd date-error on the board - or time travels? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-date-error-on-the-board-or-time-travels/992416 "2023-11-01T13:38:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-date-error-on-the-board-or-time-travels/992416/1 "2023-11-01T13:38:14Z")
is my math off, or did I screw up my time travels? [![](https://i.postimg.cc/tT6VYcP4/image.png) ](https://i.postimg.cc/tT6VYcP4/image.png) is that a known bug here? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-date-error-on-the-board-or-time-travels/992416/2 "2023-11-01T13:43:37Z")
What is the error? ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-date-error-on-the-board-or-time-travels/992416/3 "2023-11-01T13:57:46Z")
the error is actually mine … i brainforked the “first post in 3 years” with the “jul 2022” … (assuming the 3 years message is hard-linked to the 2022 date (and not to today’s date) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-date-error-on-the-board-or-time-travels/992416/4 "2023-11-01T13:57:48Z")
Billy\_Rubin posted in 2020, and then on the screen captured thread in 2022. It was three years since their last post, and the notice stays there forever. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-date-error-on-the-board-or-time-travels/992416/5 "2023-11-01T14:02:25Z")
ETA: ninja’ed. An actual link to the thread would have been nice too. This is the post in question: > [@Another bathroom etiquette memo: Do you have a prehensile rectum?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bathroom-etiquette-memo-do-you-have-a-prehensile-rectum/75367/72): > > odd that i should be reminded of this post on the day i finally install a proper flushing toilet after 18 years of using a crapper that wasnt having any of my shit. In late July 2022 the **Billy\_Rubin** guy posted his comment. As of that date his immediately previous post (in a different thread) was in early July 2020, 2 years plus a couple weeks earlier. Which might round up to 3 years. As of today, his previous post was 3 years and 4 months ago versus today. which might round down to 3 years. A lot of the date range conversion code on the web is suspect. When _exactly_ is “yesterday” or “last week”, or “a year ago”? Hard to say with any precision. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-date-error-on-the-board-or-time-travels/992416/6 "2023-11-01T14:51:42Z")
We have pictures of some of our deceased dogs that apparently came from 2035. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-date-error-on-the-board-or-time-travels/992416/7 "2023-11-01T20:58:59Z")
It’s going to be so nice for you to see them again in 12 years! ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-date-error-on-the-board-or-time-travels/992416/8 "2023-11-01T21:04:09Z")
i wonder if @Billy_Rubin could update us then on news from his work colleague