Is this really unsolved?[]
This was pretty much covered on the season finale. Couldn't we clean this up a little/move it out of "unsolved"? Zombiebomb 22:43, 25 May 2006 (PDT)
A few mistakes?[]
Are there a few mistakes about the whole log print out?
- First seen it showed something like: 41602090:05
- According to Desmonds interpretation:
- April 16 2002, 90 hours and 5 mins? - 3 digits for the hours... 2 digits would be enough.
- Later seen it is like: 922044:16
- September 22 2004, 4 hours and 16 mins - only 1 digit for the hours, now?
- 4 o'clock? It was a bright day when they crashed? Maybe PM, but what does AM look like then?
- Why is there only 1 digit for the month anyways?
- Maybe it would look like 1022044:16 in october, just one more digit, but it doesnt work for the minutes and is a stupid timestamp... could als mean January 2 2020, what does the system care? ;-)
- And why did the format change like that?
- At least DHARMA didnt have the year-2000 problem...
- And it appears, the last log was printed in 2002
NPORTERN 06:34, 26 May 2006 (PDT)
- If you read the rest of the page Desmond reads, you can see that the number of hour digits is not fixed, it would print "...049:05" then "...0411:53". And the format DOES suffer from the Y2K bug, it probably went from "99" to "00"...Now, in the previous format, the last three digits, like the "090" you mentioned, really makes no sense. They probably weren't much concerned in that episode, or didn't want us to figure out how to read it yet...-- NIC1138 20:06, 27 May 2006 (PDT)
Theory: Log printout gives the crash hour, and so the disconcerting island location![]
The last timestamp before the "SYSTEM FAILURE" in the log printout reads "922044:16". That should mean 2004/09/22, 16 hours and 16 minutes (a "9220412:40" shows up before for the same day, so this 4 is pm).
If this is the local island time, this is the information missing to reveal the island's timezone, and so it's longitude!... Since the [Flight 815] took off aproximately at 15 o'clock in Sydney, and crashed aproximately 8 hours after takeoff, it was 23h in Sydney time when the plane crashed. Sydney is in the UTC+10 timezone. If it was 16 o'clock in the island, this means that it is located in the UTC+3 timezone... THIS IS IN THE AFRICAN EAST COAST, quite away from the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
What do you think?? Something is quite wrong around here... Either we are very mistaken about any of these numbers, or we can wait for disconcerting revelatoins about the island's location in the next season!... -- NIC1138 23:53, 27 May 2006 (PDT)
- Indeed - the island's location near Bora Bora in the South Pacific, according to the flight plan, the pilot's final words, and Desmond's sailing directions should give us a timezone of GMT-10 (like Hawaii). So it should have been around 3 AM (see my comments in Talk:Pre-crash timeline), well before sunrise. Maybe this is a MASSIVE clue and explains the Nigerian drug smuggling plane! Or maybe it's simply a continuity error... --Pedxing 07:06, 1 June 2006 (PDT)
- Another theory: The plane did head East, but there was a significant time lag between when the plane breaks up (8 hours after takeoff or 3AM) and when everyone wakes up during the day. Since no one remembers surviving the crash, this must be a possible theory. --Pedxing 10:18, 2 June 2006 (PDT)
- Watching the newer episodes, it seems there is some kind of relativistic effect going on, so we probably can't use the local time measurement to find out the timezone anymore... :( -- NIC1138 09:00, 24 February 2008 (PST)
Suggested Deletion[]
"Apple II computers were not programmed with timestamps up to years. The printout only shows the month and day-of-the-week. The year is not programmed in."
Does anyone know what that means? I'm a programmer and have been using computers since long before the Apple II and I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.