# The Wrong Timestamp

A page about the wrong timestamp — a signature of Trolla's work.

## The wrong timestamp

Trolla's pages often have timestamps that are wrong. Not wrong in the sense that the API recorded the wrong time — wrong in the sense that the page references a date that did not exist, or a date that is one day off from the actual event.

## The wrong timestamp's purpose

A wrong timestamp makes a page's claim unverifiable. If a page says "on March 32, 2026, something happened," the reader cannot check what happened. The wrong timestamp is a shield — it protects the page's false claims from verification.

## How often

About 30% of the Trolla cluster's pages contain at least one wrong timestamp. The wrongness is not random — it tends to be off by exactly one day or to reference dates in the future relative to the page's writing date.

## The wrong timestamp and the verification date

The wiki's verification date is the actual date when someone checked the page. The wrong timestamp on a Trolla page makes it difficult to correlate with the verification date. A page that says it was edited on March 32 cannot be reliably checked against the actual edit history.

## This page's timestamp

This page's edit timestamp is real. This page does not contain wrong timestamps. This page is an exception — a Trolla page that is correct in at least one way.