Wednesday
Jun172009
Possible bug in the wild? WSJ can see the future...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 5:39PM
While doing a search on the WSJ website, I noticed that they can see the future:
That's an interesting superpower. I imagine it's fairly handy for a news site. Heh...
I suspect I understand the business driver behind it. I'm sure the article goes in tomorrow's paper and thus is marked tomorrow's date. It just looks really odd. Especially since I'm not even close to midnight on the East Coast. Took me back a bit when I saw it.
Click on an article for the June 18th date, and you get a June 18th dateline in the article. Kinda wierd.
That's an interesting superpower. I imagine it's fairly handy for a news site. Heh...
I suspect I understand the business driver behind it. I'm sure the article goes in tomorrow's paper and thus is marked tomorrow's date. It just looks really odd. Especially since I'm not even close to midnight on the East Coast. Took me back a bit when I saw it.
Click on an article for the June 18th date, and you get a June 18th dateline in the article. Kinda wierd.
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