[ 246 ] wtf?

visa · Post by **visa** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 7:51 am

http://www.reallifecomics.com/daily.php?strip_id=246

I was looking through Real Life all over again, and I found a blank strip -

it also has the date "December 30 1969". Is this a joke or something?

visa · Post by **visa** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 7:52 am

its 31, my bad

EvilElf · Post by **EvilElf** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 7:56 am

Your new here so I will not say anything mean but. But you can edit your posts.

And yes that is a joke.

..... unless Greg couldn't tell what day it was that day.

visa · Post by **visa** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 8:06 am

Couldn't read the button properly, sorry

enisoc · Post by **enisoc** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 9:21 pm

Read the "Repeat comics" thread. I'm sure it's not a joke, just an honest mistake.

Stapr · Post by **Stapr** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 9:32 pm

Actually, it could because there isn't a ID# 246 row in the database. The reason is this: If the timestamp for displaying the comics is set to 0 or -1 (can't remember which), then the code which converts the timestamp to a "human friendly" date will return the day before the epoch (the epoch being Jan. 1st, 1970).

So, if there isn't a row for ID# 246 in the database, AND if the code doesn't stop if there isn't a row for the comic in the database, then the info retrieved from the database would be empty. This will cause the page to display the date as December 31, 1969. Also, since the image field is also blank, the page will display a broken image instead of the comic.

enisoc · Post by **enisoc** » Sat Aug 16, 2003 9:57 pm

[quote="Stapr";p="136010"]Actually, it could because there isn't a ID# 246 row in the database. The reason is this: If the timestamp for displaying the comics is set to 0 or -1 (can't remember which), then the code which converts the timestamp to a "human friendly" date will return the day before the epoch (the epoch being Jan. 1st, 1970).[/quote]
It is likely that the timestamp being converted is 0, which is exactly midnight on 1970-01-01 GMT. However, the server is in GMT-x so it must subtract to adjust for the time zone difference, thus resulting in 1969-12-31.

Stapr wrote:So, if there isn't a row for ID# 246 in the database, AND if the code doesn't stop if there isn't a row for the comic in the database, then the info retrieved from the database would be empty. This will cause the page to display the date as December 31, 1969. Also, since the image field is also blank, the page will display a broken image instead of the comic.

This would explain the date, but the page does not display a broken image. The "missing row theory" fails to explain why half of the next comic's image is shown, instead of nothing at all. The most immediate explanation of this latter mystery is that the image files were uploaded with some kind of batch process, which failed while uploading 246 and was then resumed, but started over with a fresh copy of the image, to become 247. However, without certain details of the inner workings of ioncomix as well as the process used to load the comic information onto the new server, this is all mere speculation.

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