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Error'd: Time Wounds All Heels
This post humorously explores several instances of technology mishandling time, leading to absurd situations. Robert received an email from OnePlus stating his delivery date was "Yesterday," implying the driver would need to time travel. Kinkster found an interesting bug on Fetlife, where a new member's profile picture seemed to be posted an hour before they joined the community. ERIC P. shared a photo of his 2008 Ford, which experienced a GPS date rollover bug, causing its display to show a date from 1024 weeks in the past. Marc Würth observed peculiar crawling statistics on Netvibes, showing a feed being fetched 261 years in the future before normalizing. An anonymous user jokingly reported receiving parcels before the Roman conquest of Britain, with the combined notification date defaulting to the Unix epoch. These anecdotes highlight common software glitches related to date and time calculations. The post connects these seemingly random bugs to the theme of time travel. It emphasizes how often time handling code can fail in unexpected ways. The featured examples span various types of software and hardware. Each instance provides a lighthearted look at programming challenges.