Although I'm not directly affected by this problem myself, I do look through old threads occasionally, where the time got wiped. Sometimes the posts are shown in the correct order, sometimes they end up reversed- which is rather disconcerting. Furthermore, there's an ongoing discussion on the "first post" in the Beer Garden right now.
Here's a suggestion to at least show the correct order of these posts:
- Code: Select all
replace all 0-times with the post number
Most posts would still show as 1-Jan-1970 (post no. 36000 would be at 10 a.m. UTC), but the chronological order would be correct.
This should be possible with a simple SQL-command or a Perl 3-liner (depending on how the data is stored). The date joined could be processed similarly- assuming that the member nos. are assigned successively.
Of course it would be best to try this out on a copy of the data first!
G
- don't know how long it's been active, but 
Forgot to mention it, and I'm amazed you actually noticed. 
