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This question seems to have two accepted answers - @Felix's was accepted on January 1, 2001.

Is this a known bug? It doesn't seem a duplicate of this bug, which has its roots in a race condition.

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    I was originally going to link some earlier reports like this, but this is something completely different. For the record, that timestamp is the same as what happens when a deleted user has acceptance, in case that points anything out. The timeline shows the answer as unaccepted, so something must've glitched to keep it still labeled as such. Commented Jan 26, 2011 at 20:31
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    Another case popped up just a few hours before you asked this question: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/53096/… Commented Jan 26, 2011 at 20:37
  • @Pop good catch. Must be related to some recent change Commented Jan 26, 2011 at 20:40
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    Roots in a race condition? The time difference is 22 seconds, I wouldn't expect the SO hardware to be that slow. Commented Jan 26, 2011 at 20:45
  • @BalusC ah, it was just Pollyanna's suspicion, not official word. I misread. Commented Jan 26, 2011 at 20:47
  • @Jeff status-completed, but how? Commented Feb 7, 2011 at 15:31
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    @will sql is a hell of a drug Commented Feb 8, 2011 at 5:29

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Seen this on SO (lost the link immediately). Could be an issue with a merge between questions that had answers, or an answer being accepted after a merge but before the user refreshed the merged question. Or it could be aliens.

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    Aliens with... cosmic rays?! Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 20:45
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I could have sworn that this was a dupe, but I can't find one. If I recall correctly, January 1, 2001 is a special date for Stack Exchange. (To be more specific, it's 01/01/01 at 0000 hours.) It shows up sometimes in migrations and other situations where, say, an action on a post predates the post's creation date.

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