From the Past or Future?

[weeji]

So in my Junk Mail box I keep getting messages with the date 01/18/38.  I'm wondering if it's 1938, 2038, or maybe even 3838!  I know there wasn't e-mail in 1938 but if someone has found a way to send e-mail through time, who's to say that they didn't time travel with the equipment?

But I don't like messing with the whole space-time continuum.  And

Comments

[beldar]

Still, if you could pick up real estate in Costa Rica in 1938, imagine what it would be worth now?

[weeji]

Hmmm... I guess I hadn't thought of it that way. Wouldn't it be hard to establish ownership without being born yet, though? I just think it would be too complicated. I'll stick with my current situation (as sad as it may be).

[nidoking]

Looks to me like the data got corrupted or filtered and they filled the time stamp with 1s. I believe that January 19, 2038 is when the traditional Unix time data type hits its maximum value.