325619 - Show Update History shows wrong install date for 1.5.0.1 Security Update

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 316328

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[royharv]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Tools | Options | Advanced | Update | Show Update History shows the wrong install date (Dec 31, 1969, 7:00:00 PM) for 1.5.0.1 Security Update. My system clock is OK.  I closed and re-opened Fx and got the same answer.  This is similar to bug #316328, which reported a similar wrong date (Jan 1, 1970, 1 PM).  Guess it still hasn't been fixed, but it has changed!

This bug is not a big deal in itself, but if this indicates the quality of the install of a security update, I'm nervous.

Thanks for a great product.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Do Tools | Options | Advanced | Update | Show Update History 
2.Look at result
3.

Actual Results:  
See above

Expected Results:  
Show correct time and date.

Not running any other programs during install of update or on re-try.  Win XP SP2.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

12am, January 1st, 1970 is the beginning of time in many computer systems, represented by the value 0.  When you adjust it for the time zone, you end up with a date/time slightly off from midnight.  So both bugs are the same, just computers running in different time zones.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 316328 ***