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10-06-2009, 03:28 PM
My "play until" date has me humming the tune to Hotel California. This image (http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c313/GMPax/1969again.jpg) should point out why. :D
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10-06-2009, 03:32 PM
guess that means no time travel powerset is on the books..would end the universe.
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10-06-2009, 03:34 PM
"...You can check out anytime you'd like...but you can never leave."
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10-06-2009, 03:37 PM
I noticed the same thing. Not sure why that is though . . . :confused:
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10-06-2009, 03:41 PM
hmmm, that confuses me. I should go check mine :D
maybe they just decided to use a random date that already passed?
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10-06-2009, 03:46 PM
haha 01/01/1970 here.
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10-06-2009, 03:49 PM
I guess they had to put some kind of date.
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10-06-2009, 03:50 PM
I'm also December 31st, 1969.
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10-06-2009, 04:05 PM
1970-01-01
Cryptic: We were working on Champions Online back before the ZX81 was released, it was an Interactive Fiction you played by snail mailing codes to people! Take that, Blizzard!
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10-06-2009, 04:07 PM
Its fairly well known that as far as computers are concerned, time did not exist before december 31st, 1969
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10-06-2009, 04:09 PM
Oh poop, my fault I'll get it fixed.
FYI, that date is 0 (in unix timestamp format). We use zero to represent infinity.
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10-06-2009, 04:39 PM
Just checked mine out and it says this:
Subscribed Till: 1969-12-31
Holy crap where's McFly I need that time machine of his plus Gigabolt to juice er up. :D
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10-06-2009, 05:06 PM
Just checked mine out and it says this:
Subscribed Till: 1969-12-31
Holy crap where's McFly I need that time machine of his plus Gigabolt to juice er up. :D
you have the wrong 1969, they mean the next one.
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10-06-2009, 05:18 PM
haha 01/01/1970 here.
Same as me.
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10-06-2009, 05:40 PM
Y2k! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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10-06-2009, 06:12 PM
it's this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_time
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10-06-2009, 06:17 PM
Mine says the exact same thing lol.
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10-06-2009, 06:24 PM
"Play Time Until: 1969-12-31"
Looks like I'll be 4 months old when my subscription expires...
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10-06-2009, 08:16 PM
Y2k! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
:D It happened almost 10 years late, but hey...
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10-06-2009, 09:48 PM
Oh poop, my fault I'll get it fixed.
FYI, that date is 0 (in unix timestamp format). We use zero to represent infinity.
So you're saying I'm a Zero?
*gets indignant*
Why how dare you, how dare you I say. I shall see you at dawn for a duel with flintlocks, english rules.
*storms off to find a giant stove top hat to wear*
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10-07-2009, 01:39 AM
"...You can check out anytime you'd like...but you can never leave."
I was thinking more:
So I called up the captain / And said: please bring me my wine / And he said: we haven't had that spirit here / Since 1969
:) But, close enough!
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10-07-2009, 03:44 AM
Maybe the calendar restarts at some point in time.... then the dates would start at like a bllion BC?
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10-07-2009, 04:47 AM
haha 01/01/1970 here.
Same 01/01/1970 here to, so something else effects the date.
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10-07-2009, 05:21 AM
Same 01/01/1970 here to, so something else effects the date.
There's not really a mystery to solve, per se... it's just an artifact of how the software for displaying the date is handling it being set to zero (more info here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time)). Diamonds will probably just tweak it to tell us some form of sweet nothing if it sees a date set to zero. The variations are likely based on timezone since the data is probably stored in UTC.
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10-07-2009, 05:40 AM
Love the Dev response to this, classic..
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10-07-2009, 06:02 AM
Oh poop, my fault I'll get it fixed.
FYI, that date is 0 (in unix timestamp format). We use zero to represent infinity.
EPOCH FAIL!
Sorry Diamonds, had to.
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10-07-2009, 06:07 AM
Unix epoch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch) fail. Sorry, had to say it... again... Seriously, there's been many threads on this before, they've all ended up with the person being told "it's the unix epoch." The date will never be reached so the system will never cancel the account.
It only checks to see if the date equals the expiration date, not if it's over the expiration date. It doesn't make any sense to disable accounts that are over their expiration date if the system cancels them *on* the date. Because then you have the system canceling the same accounts that are already canceled day after day.
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10-07-2009, 09:02 AM
Maybe the calendar restarts at some point in time.... then the dates would start at like a bllion BC?
I believe they'd restart at around 10 billion BCE, actually. Some 5 to 6 billion years before the formation of Earth, and several billion years before even our SUN fist ignited it's nuclear furnace.
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10-07-2009, 09:57 AM
I believe they'd restart at around 10 billion BCE, actually. Some 5 to 6 billion years before the formation of Earth, and several billion years before even our SUN fist ignited it's nuclear furnace.
Okay, I now have the concept for a new hero!
Sun Fist, the Nuclear Furnace!
...
Dammit Conflag got a nerf didn't it.
-np
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10-07-2009, 10:40 AM
They set it like that because that date will never happen. the choice was random they could have set it for last year
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10-07-2009, 10:45 AM
wow same here... mine says 12/31/1969 :D
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10-07-2009, 02:03 PM
Hold on a sec here people.....
I just realized something.
This isnt' some glitch or something, Diamonds is just trying to cover over the truth, which is the hidden perk we get for having life time subs.
Time machines.
Mhmm.
You heard me, time machines.
We all get 'em, they just dont' have them ready for shipping yet.
Very clever Diamonds, very clever, but I'll keep my eye out for that time machine ;).