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.