Hacker News Reader

I work for the IFMIF project, an ITER-adjacent project with the goal of researching new materials suitable for future fusion reactors.

Trust me, we are all massive geeks, including my colleagues from CEA. There is a non-small chance that the result is deliberate.

The last record was 1066

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings

Would it make any sense for the Chinese to choose such a date?

It was the year of Halley's Comet.

Does it have a signifiance in Chinese's culture?

They turned it off specifically then. Just like the previous one at 1066. We used to do stuff like this in our labs as a joke. Or try and stop timers exactly on :00