Web Time Stamps Indicate Benoit Death Reported About 14 Hours Before Police Found Bodies

Fox News ^ | Thursday, June 28, 2007 | Blane Bachelor

[jdm]

Note also that the story says the person reported on Wikipedia that the wrestler's wife had died - not him or their son. Maybe the original plan was to kill his wife and subsequently take off with their son. But then perhaps he got scared and killed everyone. Hard to tell.

[Sopater]

12:01 is minute #1 (the first minute that is clearly on a given day)

I would have to argue that the first minute that is clearly on a given day is 12:00:00AM - 12:00:59AM, the minute that you speak of is clearly the second.

[Sue Perkick]

This thing gets more bizarre every day.

[Cyber Liberty]

I am not going any deeper than to point out that our entire calendar system is based on the first year being "1", not "0".

Or were you one of those people who kept insisting the millenium started on January 1, 2000?

[Sopater]

I am not going any deeper than to point out that our entire calendar system is based on the first year being "1", not "0".

I beg your pardon. I thought we were talking about modern technology.

[jdm]

Whoever did the editing at Wikipedia wanted to make damn sure that the post didn’t go through until the date was safely, technically June 25. That’s what I make of the 12:01 anyway.

[Dante3]

Weird.

[JRios1968]

STAMFORD????

[Niteranger68]

He did it himself, I would assume. There were reports that he was texting messages etc during the time prior to his death.

That's my vote.

[Diplomat]

For a databse in use today to record a time-stamp at ONE minute part midnight, it would either of had to occurred that way or be hard-code that way.

Furthermore, the 12:01am time-stamp being published could also be an ERROR from the hourmalist writting th report. If Wikipeida provided the value initially, then I would have expected them to output the time part of it in format HH24:MI:SS or HH12:MI:SS A.M. But intead we see HH12:MI A.M.

Please also note, the time-stamp that Fox News is reporting is really 4:01 a.m., not the 12:01 EST that the article first states. This is because the default time-zone for all of Wikipedia is GMT. Thus Wikipedia is saying that the post was made at 4:01 am GMT, which is 12:01 am EST.

It may very well be that the poster waited until after midnight to post the death announcement, not realizing that the timestamp is really part of the data stamp.

[Clam Digger]

Isn’t the WWE or something like it headquartered out of that area?

[doodad]

Exactly, he cancelled a scheduled appearance with a “family emergency” and that was probably it.

[Froufrou]

Roid Rage is heinous.

[JRios1968]

Indeed

[Sue Perkick]

No. Chris sent text messages from 2 cell phones-—not a computer (& not from Stamford CT) to two people. At least one of them is a person he was very close to. He said Nancy & Daniel were ill. Not dead.

[Sue Perkick]

It is.

[Rodney King]

No. Chris sent text messages from 2 cell phones-—not a computer (& not from Stamford CT) to two people. At least one of them is a person he was very close to. He said Nancy & Daniel were ill. Not dead.

Well obviously that is not the case or else the wikipedia entry would not have been changed before the bodies were found.

[HitmanLV]

Probably nothing.

[Clam Digger]

There must be some logical connection. I don’t follow wrestling, but this one seems more odd by the day.

[Sue Perkick]

The text messages & their content have already been verified by police.