December 31, 1969, 3:00:00 pm

[Hozzie]

Does anyone know if any important events happened this time? I just got a new phone and it opened up "my personal videos" snd that is what it said. However, the video was blank: "could not open video." What could this mean?

I am a believer in spirits

[Ashikoman23]

The grateful dead played a killer show in Boston, may not be significant to you but bootleg traders loved it

Bamfd to the future from my tbolt

[dezymond]

It means you time machine.


Really though probably small glitch.

[Hozzie]

I looked it up, and the answer to this question is actually kind of interesting!

Why Does My Gadget Say It’s December 31, 1969? - Mental Floss

Unix, the computer operating system used on most servers, workstations and mobile devices, was launched on January 1, 1970, making that date its “epoch date.” What this means is that time began for Unix at midnight on January 1, 1970. Time measurement units are counted from the epoch so that the date and time of events can be specified without question. If a time stamp is somehow reset to 0 and displayed in local time, users will see December 31, 1969 — the day before Unix’s creation.

[dezymond]

I looked it up, and the answer to this question is actually kind of interesting!

Why Does My Gadget Say It’s December 31, 1969? - Mental Floss

Unix, the computer operating system used on most servers, workstations and mobile devices, was launched on January 1, 1970, making that date its “epoch date.” What this means is that time began for Unix at midnight on January 1, 1970. Time measurement units are counted from the epoch so that the date and time of events can be specified without question. If a time stamp is somehow reset to 0 and displayed in local time, users will see December 31, 1969 — the day before Unix’s creation.

wow interesting find. had no idea about that