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Start date is wrong

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Halo Cyborg

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30 Nov 2012 09:57Link
When i signed up on the 23rd of October. The start date is supposed to be on Jan 3050 not Dec 3049. Sometimes it keeps changing back and forth. I naturally started in Jan 3050 game time. Is there a way this stop and bring it to Jan 3050 or not. Is it normal for this to happen?

Thanks.
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Mizore

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30 Nov 2012 11:48Link
I remember it doing that for the very first country I registered... oh about 5 years ago. Haven't payed any attention to the start dates in a long time so couldn't say if it's a recurring thing, but it's not important as far as I'm concerned.

If I had to guess, it probably has to do with registering the country while the month is shifting, probably does funky things in the database.
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Halo Cyborg

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01 Dec 2012 07:40Link
Thanks
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Andy

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07 Dec 2012 23:05Link
Date moving BACK?
never had a complaint like this.
please let me know when you see such a thing.
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Crafty

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09 Dec 2012 19:25Link
You've got to remember, time is a relative thing. While you may observe it going back and forth from your point of view it may be acting completely in sequence from an electrons point of view in the SC server.

If you really are uncomfortable with it, I would suggest you relocate to a place in space-time with different gravitational forces acting upon it.
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Mizore

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10 Dec 2012 02:54Link
Haha.
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maclean

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10 Dec 2012 12:51Link
I agree with the Crafty one; time is simply a relative measurement of passage thru a gravtationally distorted space/velocity matrix, (sorry, Newton, but you were wrong!), and is relative to the observer. :)
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Crafty

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10 Dec 2012 22:40Link
I don't know if it's fair to call Newton wrong, he was right in what he observed, he just didn't see the whole picture. Mind you, I expect the same will be said about Einstein/relativity in time.
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maclean

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11 Dec 2012 12:31Link
true; Newton is right as it pertains to medium-sized systems. It is only in the realm of the very large and very small that most older rules of physics do not apply. I stand corrected.
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Crafty

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11 Dec 2012 16:44Link
Lol, I wasn't trying to correct you Mac, at all. I just like people to think of things in terms of the knowledge and beliefs at the time.

And theoretical physics is one of my pet topics, strictly on a laymans basis. More discussions of it would be great. I've been trying some newsgroups and forums but they all are too advanced for me, what I have found so far. Graduates and professionals with vast resources.

And then there's physics for dummies...well, title says it all. I need to find a middle ground. I think I've read all the popular quantum physics books published. And I dont have my own linear accelerator... (hmmm, wonder whats in the shed I could use as a particle accelerator...).
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maclean

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17 Dec 2012 07:39Link
Crafty: I am also fascinated with theoretical physics, and quantum theory (in which anything seems possible if you can figure out a good storyline for it :) )
Btw, there was a young chap about high school age, I think, who made his own private breeder reactor using the radioactive element in smoke detectors as a starting fuel. Hmmm...
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Crafty

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17 Dec 2012 15:08Link
Well, I have several quite strong magnets in old motors, and a crude laser in a pointing pen. I may be able to pull a vacuum with the wifes dyson, hmmm, black holes in my shed, like it!