Something here does not add up.

[Tekton]

More info-u-don't-need-to-know™ from Tekton...

In most operating systems, time is measured in number of seconds since 1/1/1970. It looks like Blizz isn't properly persisting friends last login time across server resets. It probably defaults to zero (which translates to 1/1/1970). So when they subtract 1/1/1970 from "now" they get the maximum: 41 years (rounding up).

Tek

[Lloren]

Originally Posted by Tekton

More info-u-don't-need-to-know™ from Tekton...

In most operating systems, time is measured in number of seconds since 1/1/1970. It looks like Blizz isn't properly persisting friends last login time across server resets. It probably defaults to zero (which translates to 1/1/1970). So when they subtract 1/1/1970 from "now" they get the maximum: 41 years (rounding up).

Tek

Who is this mysterious Tek person???

[The Mighty Gerbil]

41 years ago man those were the days to play WoW. You'd have to put in a punch card to change your gear and every time the magnetic tape got to the end the servers would go down.

[Keero]

Check his first post.

[Lloren]

I was a video game developer for 10 years (working primarily on the Myst series)

whoa. I loved Myst. mad props.

[ewoksrule]

Myst was really the first all-nighter I pulled as a video game addict. My friend had a Apple Quadra (i think it was) at his work and we would go in after hours and play Myst all night long....the blue pagesssssss the bluuuuuuuuuuuuepages!

[Yolatengo]

Saw that on my real ID friends list as well. Bug!