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Missing from their suspicious dates are January 1st, 1970 and December 31st, 1969. January 1st 1970 GMT marks the start of the Unix epoch. For Americans, this actually happened in 1969 because of the timezone offset.

It shows up a lot in timestamps if you're experimenting with filesystems. Well, this list is aimed at reporters, so maybe that's not something reporters typically do. HN readers should know what I'm talking about.

Good reference. My only gripe is calling it an "exhaustive" list.

Well, I was exhausted already after reading the ToC.

Was referring to the website, not the submission.

There is also a book publlished by O'Reilly, the Bad Data Handbook: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024422.do

Anyone was dealt with real-world data will laugh and cry while reading this post

The Quartz guide to bad data