I saw on the main page that our latest poster/person to register was someone called Anonymous Coward. Intrigued as to what thread this person had posted on, I went to his/her profile. As you can see here the profile lists the poster as having no posts (at this time) and yet his/her last post being at 6:00pm on 12/31/1969. maybe the system didn’t “eat” the “ghost poster” referred to here–maybe it is something else?
Naw, that probably just corresponds to the beginning of the epoch. Many operating systems and computer applications measure time by counting seconds in the epoch, which, for whatever reason, began Jan. 1st, 1970. So, the date you noticed simply corresponds to the field being zero internally.
Thank you very much! That’s our answer.
Since we switched to the new software, all new registrations have a “last post date” of 12-31-1969.
The mystery is solved!
I figured it was some kind of a placeholder and so didn’t worry about it much.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
Thank you very much. I was all panicked over nothing! (Happens alot!) I’ll go back to MPSIMS now!
Wonderful. If there was anything this message board was lacking, it was a combination of “First Post” posts, (URL deleted) links, and Linux zealotry.
Good to see that this problem has been dealt with. 
[Edited by Eutychus55 on 09-23-2000 at 02:42 PM]