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I get 45 years ago timestamp for posts too - what's causing the error?

(Flask Follower posts) As per Kenneth's video, I get the weird 45 years ago timestamp for posts too - what's causing the error?

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Many (most?) web servers run on Linux, which is a open source descendent of Unix. From wikipedia

The first edition Unix Programmer's Manual dated 3 November 1971 defines the Unix time as "the time since 00:00:00, 1 January 1971, measured in sixtieths of a second"

It is probably not a coincidence that the "beginning of time" was 45 years ago. If the value of your time variable is zero, Unix / Linux would parse that as 1/1/1971.

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That's probably it thanks