Panel 1
Tony: Okay… since apparently the universe devs don’t see fit to fix the issue, it looks like I’ll have to do this myself. Thankfully, I left a backdoor access key to get to the source code.
Panel 2
Tony: O...kay. I think I found the database entry that controls the current date. I’ll just type in today’s date...01-01-2021… and...
Panel 3
Everything suddenly looks like a 1970’s TV show
Tony: What in the actual hell just happened?
Panel 4
Dave: If I had to guess, I’d say the universe is running on UNIX timecodes, and it didn’t parse the MM-DD-YYYY format properly, so it reverted to the UNIX epoch.
Tony: CHRIST but this is shoddy code. I’m going to leave a harshly-worded message in a comment line.
Liz: Yeah, that’ll show ‘em!
Tony: Okay… since apparently the universe devs don’t see fit to fix the issue, it looks like I’ll have to do this myself. Thankfully, I left a backdoor access key to get to the source code.
Panel 2
Tony: O...kay. I think I found the database entry that controls the current date. I’ll just type in today’s date...01-01-2021… and...
Panel 3
Everything suddenly looks like a 1970’s TV show
Tony: What in the actual hell just happened?
Panel 4
Dave: If I had to guess, I’d say the universe is running on UNIX timecodes, and it didn’t parse the MM-DD-YYYY format properly, so it reverted to the UNIX epoch.
Tony: CHRIST but this is shoddy code. I’m going to leave a harshly-worded message in a comment line.
Liz: Yeah, that’ll show ‘em!