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**skupaemauto** · 08-05-2010, 04:32 PM

Still clueless as to why that was even instituted to begin with.

It had to do with the software being used. When "start date" was added as a record, the site didn't have the records for all those that had registered prior to the software upgrade, so it just filled in the field with that arbitrary date (why 1969, who knows, it was the default) There had been some discussion to use/create a "hack" to change that date to at least something closer to the actual creation date of the site. But general apathy won out, and nobody wanted to spend the time to create the hack and install it.

08-05-2010, 04:32 PM	#27
skupaemauto Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 417 Senior Member	Still clueless as to why that was even instituted to begin with. It had to do with the software being used. When "start date" was added as a record, the site didn't have the records for all those that had registered prior to the software upgrade, so it just filled in the field with that arbitrary date (why 1969, who knows, it was the default) There had been some discussion to use/create a "hack" to change that date to at least something closer to the actual creation date of the site. But general apathy won out, and nobody wanted to spend the time to create the hack and install it.
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