xxx was last updated 46 years ago

And I have also found there is some kind of clash going on because with this plugin activated there is a noticeable prolonged delay when you click on any link in the dashboard. Its like this plugin is interfering or adding a wait state. It disappears and the site goes back to its normal speedy self as soon as the plugin is deactivated.

I can’t reproduce any slowness like that, which makes me think you have a conflict with a specific plugin.

What’s the name of the plugin that’s showing 46 years?

What other plugins are you running?

Yes, I would have to agree with you. That’s why I said “there is some kind of clash going on”.

Just haven’t found where yet/which/why yet.

There are several plugns which are old beyond their years, apparently Mika ~ https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/734884/b43ab56e0ad10db9356b9fcd91cee00c

What is Activated Where?

Plugin Activated on Site(s)

Activity Log None (not Activated anywhere)
Add Meta Tags None (not Activated anywhere)
AddThis Sharing Buttons WPExpert Support
Admin Color Schemes None (not Activated anywhere)
Adminer None (not Activated anywhere)
Akismet All (Network Activated)
Analytics for WordPress — by Segment.io None (not Activated anywhere)
AnsPress WPExpert Support
AnsPress Email WPExpert Support
Categories for AnsPress WPExpert Support
Child Theme Configurator None (not Activated anywhere)
Child Theme Configurator PRO None (not Activated anywhere)
CloudFlare None (not Activated anywhere)
Code Snippets All (Network Activated)
Crayon Syntax Highlighter WPExpert Support
Crowd Control by Postmatic None (not Activated anywhere)
Custom Contact Forms WPExpert Support
Custom Login Page Customizer None (not Activated anywhere)
Demo Data Creator None (not Activated anywhere)
Disable Comments None (not Activated anywhere)
Display Widgets WPExpert Support
EM Dashboard None (not Activated anywhere)
Enhanced Admin Links in Multisite ‘My Sites’ Drop-Downs All (Network Activated)
Epoch WPExpert Support
Export Categories None (not Activated anywhere)
FV Gravatar Cache None (not Activated anywhere)
Generator – The SEO Framework None (not Activated anywhere)
Gonzales None (not Activated anywhere)
GoodBye Captcha None (not Activated anywhere)
Google Analytics by Yoast None (not Activated anywhere)
Google Analytics Top Content Widget None (not Activated anywhere)
Hello Dolly None (not Activated anywhere)
Impostercide None (not Activated anywhere)
Insert Headers and Footers None (not Activated anywhere)
inSite for WP: personalization made easy None (not Activated anywhere)
JSON REST API Force SSL None (not Activated anywhere)
MemberPress Business Edition None (not Activated anywhere)
Multisite Enhancements All (Network Activated)
Multisite Widgets Context None (not Activated anywhere)
Page Security & Membership None (not Activated anywhere)
PA Ticket None (not Activated anywhere)
Popular Posts Bars None (not Activated anywhere)
Postmatic – WordPress Subscriptions & Commenting by Email WPExpert Support
Postmatic Social Commenting WPExpert Support
Post Pay Counter None (not Activated anywhere)
Post Series Manager None (not Activated anywhere)
Question labels None (not Activated anywhere)
Reduce Bounce Rate None (not Activated anywhere)
Register IPs None (not Activated anywhere)
Relative URL None (not Activated anywhere)
Reveal Network Activated Plugins All (Network Activated)
Role Based Help Notes None (not Activated anywhere)
Shortcodes Ultimate WPExpert Support
Shortcodes Ultimate: Additional Skins WPExpert Support
Slash Edit None (not Activated anywhere)
Smart AJAX Subscribe WPExpert Support
Smart AJAX Subscribe: Integration Addon WPExpert Support
Smart Cleanup Tools All (Network Activated)
smart Custom Display Name None (not Activated anywhere)
Smart Sitemap.xml Tools None (not Activated anywhere)
smart User Slug Hider None (not Activated anywhere)
Table of Contents Plus None (not Activated anywhere)
Tags for AnsPress WPExpert Support
Theme My Login WPExpert Support
The SEO Framework WPExpert Support
ThirstyAffiliates None (not Activated anywhere)
Thrive Leads None (not Activated anywhere)
Tracking Code Manager All (Network Activated)
UI Labs WPExpert Support
Ultimate Ads Manager None (not Activated anywhere)
UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore WPExpert Support
Use Google Libraries None (not Activated anywhere)
Usernoise Pro WPExpert Support
User Switching None (not Activated anywhere)
Velvet Blues Update URLs None (not Activated anywhere)
Video Thumbnails None (not Activated anywhere)
View Admin As None (not Activated anywhere)
Widget Alias WPExpert Support
Widget Data – Setting Import/Export Plugin None (not Activated anywhere)
WordPress Importer None (not Activated anywhere)
WordPress MU Domain Mapping All (Network Activated)
WordPress Social Login WPExpert Support
WP JV Custom Email Settings None (not Activated anywhere)
WP Link Pages Extended WPExpert Support
WP Rocket None (not Activated anywhere)
WP SEO HTML Sitemap None (not Activated anywhere)
WP Slimstat None (not Activated anywhere)
WP Snippets None (not Activated anywhere)
WP User Avatar None (not Activated anywhere)
WP Visual Adverts WPExpert Support
Yoast SEO None (not Activated anywhere)
ZenCache Pro None (not Activated anywhere)

Sorry for the long list. Its a dev site.

Okay so a better description is this: All plugins that are over two years without an update are showing up as 46 years without an update.

Awesome! It looks like they’re all also not from the www.ads-software.com repository?

Can you install…. https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/link-manager/ and see if that shows up with the right date?

Yup, that seems to work OK ~ https://screencast.com/t/61lOb8vTjF

Bingo. Looks like I just have to figure out why plugins not on the repo are showing up like that. It’s very odd, though, since it looks like ALL your plugins not on the repo are doing that, regardless of age, and when I check on my site with some plugins not in the repo, they’re skipped as they should be.

You said this is a dev box? Is there anything special about it besides that?

As you well know, there’s “something special” about EVERY box. The question is, what’s doing it on this box?

Could it be that its running on PHP 7.0 RC4?

Heh, yeah, loaded question. Mostly asked to trigger thoughts of what else you’re dev testing.

On a phpinfo page, what does the system time show? Is it correct?

Its hard to tell really.

There’s so much of it and its all written technobabble.

There is one thing though which was a surprise.

PHP Version 7.0.0 RC6

I thought it was RC4

At the top you should have this sort of thing:

System	Linux mothra.ipstenu.org 2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 22 22:00:00 UTC 2015 x86_64
Build Date	Sep 19 2015 15:20:18

Those are the first two lines ??

What are they?

(And yes, my server IS named mothra)

I have…

System Linux WPExpert 3.13.0-57-generic #95-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 19 09:28:15 UTC 2015 x86_64

How does that help?

Date formatting actually ??

Fri Jun 19 09:28:15 UTC 2015

You would not believe the crazy I’ve seen. The goal is to make sure that something really odd for PHP layouts isn’t showing up. Thanks for sending me your phpinfo. It’s .01 PHP ahead of mine, both fastCGI. So that’s weird as hell. Makes this being a PHP date/time breakage a little less likely.

46 years is DAMN specific though!

It’s getting the age via this function:

https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/ui-labs/tags/2.2/ui-labs.php#L376

And this SHOULD be throwing an empty response:

https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/ui-labs/tags/2.2/ui-labs.php#L394

You don’t say.

I thought it might have had something to do with the fact that his girl-friend left him on that day 46 years ago, and for him, the world simply stood still ever since. 8^)

Actually, when I think about it, its probably the flux capacitor.

It usually is.

I know you’re being funny, but I was serious. I am trying to reproduce it but I can’t. All I can think is ‘something’ has gummed yo your date time stamps.

Willing to give it the college ‘turn off all the other plugins’ try?