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Like stated in IRC, due to the way digital time is stored...

 

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<Ryan> Most places, timestamps are stored in Unix time, aka POSIX time or Epoch time.
<Ryan> Which is basically number of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970
<Ryan> Like this
<Ryan> ryan@Mikoto:~$ date +%s
<Ryan> 1467519525
<Ryan> ^ epoch time
<Ryan> So if you see December 31st, 1969 like that, that means that somehow the timestamp for, say, that liked status update message, is somehow '0' rather than what it should be.

Guest can't like things, or at least I don't believe they should be able. So it's likely an account that existed before but was removed for whatever reason and it somehow broke the timecodes of those likes.

 

Possibly happened during the 3.4.8 -> 4.1 IPS conversion where we once had separate display and login names but it was changed to only have a single name to prevent confusion (even though the other option offered some extra security to accounts). Anyhow this change left at least one known account broken which wasn't transferred as a result so it's likely others had issues we haven't been alerted to.

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