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Linux in 1910, according to Google Timeline

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Fire up the De Lorean Marty, we've got to go back and correct the Linux time line!

Fire up the De Lorean Marty, we've got to go back and correct the Linux time line!

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number6x ·
I think that Google time line is not handling European formatted dates correctly.
uknewbie ·
I didn't spot that, but the most bizarre errors seem to be caused by confusing version numbers with dates instead. "Kernel 2.6.11" was apparently released on 2/6/11 (6/2/11 to us on the other side of pond) or February the sixth 1911 (first result).
number6x ·
I was trying to remap things.

I do believe you have hit on the cause of the error!
uknewbie ·
if this kind of time line is auto-generated from numbers which look about right (i.e. are in the form x.x.x, where x is any number which forms a valid date) then any project with a 3 part version number should have the same problem. also if this is the case do 1907 and 2007 get mixed up when abbreviated? hmm...

I just checked and “gnome view:timeline” has a similar problem (although most of the wrongly dated results seem of only tangential relevance). “KDE view:timeline” seems mostly unscathed although I only glanced at it.

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