If you’re a frequent Facebook user, you’ll come to recognize the morning routine of launching the app on your phone or logging on to the website, only to be greeted with memories from this day many years ago.
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Later in his speech, Trump remarked that “the last thing [Clinton] wants in her whole life” is to face him in a general election. Clinton’s public comments came as President Obama was in a re-election campaign making claims al-Qaida was “on the run”.
A Facebook glitch prompted some users on the social network Thursday to see a post from the company congratulating them for the impossible: 46 years of friendship. These are posts, photos, status updates, and also anniversaries of Facebook friendships.
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In the face of criticism, President Park Geun Hye has launched an all-out campaign to win public support for the deal. China took a different tack, with state media slamming Japan’s long-awaited mea culpa as insincere and insufficient.
That, by the way, is just shy of two decades before I was born. Facebook didn’t note the cause of the error, but said it was working to correct it. The most prevalent theory is that the glitch is related to “epoch time” or “Unix time”. The bug is common and is known as the Unix epoch date, which means that the computers are interpreting today’s date as December 31, 1969. (Excluding leap seconds, in case you’re wondering.) When systems don’t have a time for something, they will sometimes reset to zero.
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Samoa was the first nation to see in 2016, with New Zealand the first nation with a sizeable population to celebrate the New Year. New York: Around 1 million people were expected to converge on New York City’s Times Square for the annual celebration.
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It seems that Facebook, for whatever reason, had a little timing mix-up when looking at which friend-a-versaries to commemorate Thursday. We did land on the moon, after all.
