Oldest active caches?

[+Believer]

Is there a list of the oldest active caches?

[+barefootjeff]

15 minutes ago, Believer said:

Is there a list of the oldest active caches?

 

You can just do a search with no filters selected and sort the results by Placed date. It looks like these are the earliest screenful:

 

[+Believer]

Cool, thanks!

[+JL_HSTRE]

There are a number of public bookmark lists of old caches.

[+GeoElmo6000]

I was wondering why the results said Mingo was placed in November, but then I remembered an Aussie showed their results :-)

[+Goldenwattle]

12 hours ago, GeoElmo6000 said:

I was wondering why the results said Mingo was placed in November, but then I remembered an Aussie showed their results :-)

Not only Australians. That's how it is in the world outside of the USA.

[+Goldenwattle]

22 hours ago, barefootjeff said:

You can just do a search with no filters selected and sort the results by Placed date. It looks like these are the earliest screenful:

I have found two of those. The Lane Cove one, and recently Europe's First. I took the train (Dart) from Dublin to Bray and walked to it. A trip done no doubt by many geocachers.

[+HHL]

19 hours ago, GeoElmo6000 said:

I was wondering why the results said Mingo was placed in November, but then I remembered an Aussie showed their results :-)

 

[+Goldenwattle]

1 hour ago, HHL said:

 

Cough, cough...only European. But don't worry we who aren't in the USA or Europe are used to being forgotten. 

[+GeoElmo6000]

2 hours ago, HHL said:

 

You could draw that picture either way to make one group look like they’re doing it right and the other doing it wrong.  We write our dates differently, it’s really no big deal. I label software files as year-month-day (today being 2023-09-18) in order for them to sort universally. 

[+Goldenwattle]

1 hour ago, GeoElmo6000 said:

We write our dates differently, it’s really no big deal.

It can be a big deal.

I know someone who was involved in an international telecommunications link up between multiple countries. Everyone was linked up except one country (easy to guess) and this mucked it up. The person who told me this story rang the person in the USA who hadn't linked up and asked why not, as everyone else was ready to go and they were holding everyone up.

"But it's not the day yet," was the reply.

They were then strongly told off*, and told that everyone else found that this was the day, and they needed to get with the rest of the world.

 

* I have heard this person telling off someone else, so I could almost hear it.

 

[+niraD]

2 hours ago, Goldenwattle said:

It can be a big deal.

You know that MM-DD-YY and DD-MM-YY formats are confusing. In an international setting, use the ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD format instead.

 

As a bonus, YYYY-MM-DD sorts properly when sorted alphabetically, unlike the other two formats.

Edited September 18, 2023 by niraD
typo

[+Goldenwattle]

5 minutes ago, niraD said:

date format YYYY-MM-YY

I have always said that is the most logical. However, either day, month, year, or year, month, day can be easily worked out because of the year, and both versions flow in size.

 

The story though is how I can remember being told it.

[+thebruce0]

Most data storage keeps the Y, M, and D values accurate (thus sort properly wherever displayed); it's not good to store date fields as static text/values.  It's really just the visual representation of date data that can be confusing across country borders. But that's why the visual naming convention is so important when it's not a matter of a system that displays it in localized date format (such as file names that are static).  It's almost always the D/M values when both are <=12 that confuse people if the year is not displayed first.

blargh.

[+GeoElmo6000]

29 minutes ago, thebruce0 said:

It's almost always the D/M values when both are <=12 that confuse people if the year is not displayed first.

 

Right, I realized when the list of caches showed Beverly as being hidden in the 13th month of the year that I wasn't looking at the date format I was used to

[+Clongo_Rongo]

Project GC - has a search

 

[+Goldenwattle]

On 9/21/2023 at 7:14 AM, Clongo_Rongo said:

Project GC - has a search

 

I brought that up and I don't get any dates, and can't find how to add that row.

[+Mermaid.Man]

3 hours ago, Goldenwattle said:

how to add that row.

You just click the little drop-down arrow where it says 'add filter'.

[+Goldenwattle]

3 hours ago, Mermaid.Man said:

You just click the little drop-down arrow where it says 'add filter'.

Thanks, but I have been clicking on filter. I likely have the wrong page. 

[+Hynz]

1 hour ago, Goldenwattle said:

Thanks, but I have been clicking on filter. I likely have the wrong page. 

 

5 hours ago, Mermaid.Man said:

You just click the little drop-down arrow where it says 'add filter'.

 

[+Goldenwattle]

5 minutes ago, Hynz said:

 

 

On what page, under which heading?

[+Hynz]

1 hour ago, Goldenwattle said:

On what page, under which heading?

https://project-gc.com/Tools/MapHiddenMonth

under top-menu "Tools"

 

 

[+Goldenwattle]

Thank you. However, I don't see that.

 

[+HHL]

25 minutes ago, Goldenwattle said:

Thank you. However, I don't see that.

Select: Map - Hidden Month (NOT Hidden Date)

[+Goldenwattle]

That's my dyslexia. I didn't read it was different. Giving up, but thankyou for helping.

[+sahan]

On 9/16/2023 at 6:35 PM, Believer said:

Is there a list of the oldest active caches?

Yes, a local cacher made a PowerPoint presentation about the oldest caches, I will attach some screenshots below.

[+pictom]

On 9/20/2023 at 5:14 PM, Clongo_Rongo said:

Project GC - has a search

 

This does not work if one has found a cache hidden in every month one was hidden. I've completed my JASMER challenge but now want to get the oldest cache in every state I visit. Fair enough.
BUT what if I want to the TWO oldest caches in every state. How does one go about seeing a list of the... say ten... ten oldest caches in every state? The number is arbitrary, but more than one. Even if it's the two oldest geocaches published in each state.

Which is what I am looking for. The second oldest cache published in West Virginia. I don't just want the name of the cache, but how to go about finding out which cache that is.

 

Thanks!

[+Clongo_Rongo]

On 12/21/2023 at 2:21 PM, pictom said:

This does not work if one has found a cache hidden in every month one was hidden. I've completed my JASMER challenge but now want to get the oldest cache in every state I visit. Fair enough.
BUT what if I want to the TWO oldest caches in every state. How does one go about seeing a list of the... say ten... ten oldest caches in every state? The number is arbitrary, but more than one. Even if it's the two oldest geocaches published in each state.

Which is what I am looking for. The second oldest cache published in West Virginia. I don't just want the name of the cache, but how to go about finding out which cache that is.

 

Thanks!

 

you add another filter @pictom

 

 

 

 

Edited December 23, 2023 by Clongo_Rongo

[+Corp Of Discovery]

On 12/21/2023 at 8:21 AM, pictom said:

This does not work if one has found a cache hidden in every month one was hidden. I've completed my JASMER challenge but now want to get the oldest cache in every state I visit. Fair enough.
BUT what if I want to the TWO oldest caches in every state. How does one go about seeing a list of the... say ten... ten oldest caches in every state? The number is arbitrary, but more than one. Even if it's the two oldest geocaches published in each state.

Which is what I am looking for. The second oldest cache published in West Virginia. I don't just want the name of the cache, but how to go about finding out which cache that is.

 

Thanks!

You can find the oldest active caches for each state by using the GC.com search page. For a particular state just start typing its name in the top left search box. It will eventually show up. You want to select the Region <state>. Where possible, always select 'All' for any other choices. Hit apply and then sort the results by the 'Placed On' column.

[+pictom]

Thanks. My mind went blank but then I "searched" for all three million caches and sorted by date published. Now I just get my copy and paste ready and start reading the locations.