Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit?

Posted by 29decibel on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:00PM
from the github.com dept.

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Re:Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit? by guptaneil on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:20PM (#5118583)

It's possible to fool GitHub by changing your system clock before committing. You can make commits appear from the future too. See http://blog.metamorphium.com/2012/12/02/just-for-fun-code-fr...

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Re:Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit? by ajross on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:08PM (#5118749)

Surely you don't have to touch the hardware. Just hand-editing a patch file before applying with git am is enough.

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Re:Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit? by michaelmior on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:43PM (#5118661)

Interesting that the actual date of the commit is December 31, 1969.

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Re:Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit? by dereferenced on Friday January 25, 2013 @07:55PM (#5118712)

Wow, almost like it's the EPOCH and there was a bug that set unixtime to 0.

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Re:Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit? by bjustin on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:07PM (#5118745)

Sounds like the UNIX time epoch but in a timezone in America, e.g. EST (UTC-5), making it the day before.

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Re:Committed 43 years ago? the oldest commit? by daragh on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:11PM (#5118760)

Ah yes, the day we sold our bus.

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