# Wonky date at the bottom of post timeline (1969)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/wonky-date-at-the-bottom-of-post-timeline-1969/156404
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wonky-date-at-the-bottom-of-post-timeline-1969/156404 "2020-06-30T20:55:58Z")
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### Author:  [@bts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bts)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wonky-date-at-the-bottom-of-post-timeline-1969/156404/1 "2020-06-30T20:55:58Z")
Just noticed this after update today, not sure if it’s new or I just didn’t notice earlier, but the clickable date at the bottom of the timeline for this topic is showing “Dec 1969”: [https://forum.hyperlink.academy/t/the-meta-course-curriculum/86](https://forum.hyperlink.academy/t/the-meta-course-curriculum/86)
Only seeing for this one topic so far. Seems to show even in [safe mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true). Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wonky-date-at-the-bottom-of-post-timeline-1969/156404/2 "2020-06-30T21:49:02Z")
That’s the [beginning of time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#:~:text=The%20Unix%20epoch%20is%20the,%2D01T00%3A00%3A00Z.). Either somehow that topic didn’t get assigned a `created_at` or your server’s time is way off.
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### Author:  [@bts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bts)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wonky-date-at-the-bottom-of-post-timeline-1969/156404/3 "2020-06-30T22:03:42Z")
Indeed! But there’s only one post in the topic and it has a date, May 6th (accurate). Is there a separate date for topic vs. first post of that topic that if created via API call and left empty, could be causing the mismatch?
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wonky-date-at-the-bottom-of-post-timeline-1969/156404/4 "2020-06-30T22:14:58Z")
For some reason the `last_posted_at` date of your topic is `null`… why? no idea.
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### Author:  [@bts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bts)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wonky-date-at-the-bottom-of-post-timeline-1969/156404/5 "2020-06-30T22:59:42Z")
Huh, maybe an issue with a bad API call or something, not sure, will look into it. Hopefully a one time thing. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wonky-date-at-the-bottom-of-post-timeline-1969/156404/6 "2020-06-30T23:05:45Z")
> [@bts](#):
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> maybe an issue with a bad API call or something,
Did you create that post with an API call? If so, that’s a good bet. (Though I’d think that `last_posted_at` would be automatically set).
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### Author:  [@bts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bts)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wonky-date-at-the-bottom-of-post-timeline-1969/156404/7 "2020-06-30T23:12:04Z")
Yes this one was created via API. I’d also think that would be set automatically but possible we accidentally deleted it or something.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wonky-date-at-the-bottom-of-post-timeline-1969/156404/8 "2020-07-30T23:12:08Z")
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