+Team Canary Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 There are currently 52 caches with a publish date before the oldest still active "Mingo" (GC30). How do these slip through the crack? Why is it possible to make the publish date prior to May 2000? Quote Link to comment
+Touchstone Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 When they updated the CSP, they restricted that option on new Listings. Prior to that, people tended to play around with it, probably thinking it was hilarious. I've heard of some people using that "feature" as part of a Puzzle concept. 1 Quote Link to comment
+Isonzo Karst Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Early on, there were no limits on the placed date. Sometime (2003?) the limit became 01 Jan 1900 ( though this could be defeated with some work. ) When the cache report form (CSP) that's in use now was started (sorry, I forget when...) it limited place date to 1 year back from current date to 1 day forward (different for events of course, which are always in the future). However, the edit form still allowed back to 01 Jan 1900. The recent update to edit form now limits to 01 Jan 2000. And it's a colossal nuisance to get the date back, as the only way to do is by clicking the calendar one month at a time, over and over and over.. Pity that wasn't set at say 01 Jan 2010, but this is some improvement. 2 Quote Link to comment
+Cacheism 500 Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Weirdness is possible I suppose if you find a cache right by the International Date Line. Suppose it is found 20 metres east of where it was hidden and published that day with the date line being 10 metres east of the original hide. Hey presto you could legitimately log it the day BEFORE it was published. And find it chronologically first but not be FTF! Etc! Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 19 minutes ago, Cacheism 500 said: Weirdness is possible I suppose if you find a cache right by the International Date Line. Suppose it is found 20 metres east of where it was hidden and published that day with the date line being 10 metres east of the original hide. Hey presto you could legitimately log it the day BEFORE it was published. And find it chronologically first but not be FTF! Etc! The international date line doesn't follow the 180th meridian; it's drawn so that it crosses no land. Fun hypothetical though. Quote Link to comment
+Cacheism 500 Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 (edited) Theres still the time zone midnight possibility though! (cache published between 12am-1am, cross 1 hour earlier.) Edited February 23, 2018 by Cacheism 500 Quote Link to comment
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