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Something weird is happening with this HN submission. Despite the submission time saying "5 hours ago" and the time on most of the comments saying "2 hours ago"

Something weird is happening with this HN submission. Despite the submission time saying "5 hours ago" and the time on most of the comments saying "2 hours ago" or less, I clearly remember seeing both this submission and several of the exact comments yesterday. If I hover over "5 hours ago" on the submission at the top, I see the timestamp "2022-06-11T12:51:31". If that's in my time zone, that was 1 day, 10 hours ago. If that's GMT, it was even longer ago. Clearly this submission has "resurfaced" with all of the relative time information changed, but the underlying timestamps on the post preserved. I have archived the page as I see it for future reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20220612175242/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31704074 https://web.archive.org/web/20220612175242/https://news.ycom... Anyone know how this could have happened? @dang?

lapcat 4y ago
Yes, the comment timestamps are also wrong. My comment from yesterday now says "2 hours ago".
r721 4y ago
I think that's what happens when dang "bumps" submission which was considered interesting but overlooked, but I don't know how exactly that process works, he probably explained it in comments somewhere.
- bscphil 4y ago
  Thanks - it's kind of weird that it screws up the date, though. Edit: actually, I have a guess. Maybe the moderators don't have access to the algorithm and it isn't that flexible, so the way they hack around it is by changing what the algorithm sees as the posted date of the submission. If the algorithm thinks the submission was made more recently than it actually was, it will bring it back to the front page because the score goes up.