# Odd date-error on the board - or time travels?

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**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")\
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**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")

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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):
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> 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.

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