It's possible to fool GitHub by changing your system clock before committing. You can make commits appear from the future too. See http://blog.metamorphium.com/2012/12/02/just-for-fun-code-fr...

Surely you don't have to touch the hardware. Just hand-editing a patch file before applying with git am is enough.

Interesting that the actual date of the commit is December 31, 1969.

Wow, almost like it's the EPOCH and there was a bug that set unixtime to 0.

Sounds like the UNIX time epoch but in a timezone in America, e.g. EST (UTC-5), making it the day before.

Ah yes, the day we sold our bus.