Well, Elon was going through some stuff in 2000 when he was thrown out of PayPal because the board wouldn’t let him rename it to X.
Then he spent 2001 stewing and so he missed 9/11 and Homeland Security being created.
There's also been some speculation that they are not parsing transfers and promotions correctly with their software, so they've been treating "probationary promotions" as the same as "probationary employees" and reporting the full time in government employment instead of time in current role.
But the Unix epoch thing is both plausible and something they've already done, which, for normal people, would make it less likely that they would make that same mistake again, but with them I think it makes it more likely.
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Then he spent 2001 stewing and so he missed 9/11 and Homeland Security being created.