Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Are There Any Professionals That Can Explain A News Article Time Stamp? From The Inbox...

A story on the Washington Navy Yard shooting was published in a paper BEFORE the event??

 Any Ideas?

 Here's a link to an article about it

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 Here is link to the Paper  The KelownaDailyCourier
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and a screen shot from reader Ken that he sent me earlier....





any ideas on how this happens??
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10 comments:

  1. JohnSeptember 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM

    The shortest answer is that not all systems administrators keep their server clocks synchronized with a global time source. Additionally, Google may be grabbing the page date from the headers provided by the target web server.

    Now, it would be interesting if we could have a third party observe that Google had a new page referencing such an event before one actually happened rather than just relying on time stamps.

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    1. JohnSeptember 17, 2013 at 5:37 PM

      And, for the "professional" part: Sr. Unix Systems Engineer; in IT for 19 years.

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    2. IrishSeptember 17, 2013 at 5:45 PM

      Thanks John. I wanted to post it up and see if anyone would know how that type of error
      can happen given this day and age of modern technology.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 17, 2013 at 8:35 PM

    That reminds me... my test server at work is off an hour. Need to get the sysadmin to change that!

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  3. Steve in CASeptember 18, 2013 at 8:37 AM

    We have hundreds of servers here at work and none of them are the correct time. We do not use timestamps on files for anything. But I do luvs me some conspiracy.

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    1. IrishSeptember 18, 2013 at 10:41 AM

      Ben, thanks for the leg work. The two links you supplied definitely showed the issue and how
      simple it was to verify. Thanks again!!

      Pissed

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  6. UnknownSeptember 18, 2013 at 10:40 AM

    Of course it would be simple to verify a server timestamp issue. The error would be systemic you should be able to find other stories published ~10 hours early i.e. any morning news published would have a stamp in the middle of the night. There must be other stories published from that server and if they do not maintain its time then its not a new issue.

    and just like that its all nothing. See this story talking about a wed killing in Afghanistan published Tuesday night.

    http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/world-news/gunman-kills-afghan-provincial-election-official-days-after-start-of-campaign-season.html

    Or this one form a bus crash today
    http://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/national-news/multiple-dead-and-injured-after-via-rail-train-city-bus-collide-in-ottawa.html

    It appears that the server they use to aggregate AP written stories has a clock issue.

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    1. IrishSeptember 18, 2013 at 10:42 AM

      Ben, thanks for the leg work. The two links you supplied definitely showed the issue and how
      simple it was to verify. Thanks again!!

      Pissed

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