Hi everyone,

So I wanted resume playing Witcher 3 since 2 days ago and today I got this message (see screenshot)

I really don't know what to make of this...Which one should I click? :p Very interesting bug non the less. And yes my computer is synced to the right date and not 1969.

I'd ignore the message, hit cancel and presume this set of files is washed.

I bet some of the metadata got scrubbed because of the CDN change.

Good Really Damn Old Games

More likely, 53 years, that takes it to 1970. Sounds right to me. Thankfully 32bit unix time is still useful... for another 13 years. After 2038-01-19 32bit won't be enough; But i think most systems have already updated to 64bit which should outlast our lifetimes.

Most systems ... except maybe for a few nuclear launch computers and doomsday satellites. Nah, we'll be fine.

Most likely explanation:

The computer has become the enhanced digital Kwisatz Haderach, able to see and move through time in both directions.

Well if we have to scour the systems and find said it was launched in1905, well we'll know time was retroactively modified breaking the space time continuum!

Or something.

No, launching nukes probably only matters if the system says NOW, and other than that it waits indefinitely. I highly doubt they'd put in 'in the event we are poisoned to death, launch the nukes to take out XXX in 30 days' or something stupid like that.

Though like in the 2k bug, it just means some programs will output with the wrong 2 digits when printing receipts.

Go for ignore, and put off playing the game for now, while you contact GOG and ask for help.

Clearly whoever coded Galaxy, needs to fix that issue ... just unacceptable.

And just showing year is not enough, dates should be precise. A lot can happen and change in a year.

I'd suggest checking file dates on your PC yourself, but even if that gave some clarity, you would also need to get precise file dates in the GOG cloud too.

im getting same message now. do i want to use cloud sync from 54 years ago or on my pc from 54 years ago... gog has some work to do.

Hmmm....

I've been doing a LOT of copying between two systems, and i've gotten down using cp -rpnv as the main arguments. Recursive, Preserve permissions/owndership/time-date, No overwritting, and Verbose.

As such during copying, AFTER the file is copied, then it's date and stats are updated (I know this because sometimes permission is denied for the directory to update those details, and during the copy the files are inaccessible as i'm not the admin for that machine). But if the directory permissions don't line up it may not copy the preserved data.

Though i'd assume it would set the default time as NOW and the umask as the default permissions, until it's updated after the copy.

I've been seeing this glitch on a few games myself. I think Stars in Shadow and Space Haven. So seems safe bed that it's not a game specific issue and more like a system issue.

There are a few games that have no entry in the upload log, not even for the original release, The Witcher 3 being one of them. I guess this is what happens if you want to check the release date.