A funny random fact is that a date on computers using Unix or POSIX-complient operating systems (Mac OS X, Linux, etc.) is calculated as the amount of time that has elapsed since midnight January 1, 1970. That means that if an error somewhere occurs and the date is retrieved as -1, the system would translate that as one second before January 1, 1970, thus returning the seemingly strange date of December 31, 1969. Dates are done this way so you can store dates as simply a number, rather than having to store month, day, year, etc.
That's why you see that weird error. Somewhere along the line, a number that should have been in the millions was instead retrieved as -1.
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