Error'd: ABQ is the bomb

This week we have an unusual number of submissions involving dates or timestamps.That is, the usual sorts of error'ds, but unusually many of them.

Gerald E. chuckled "I do love the back to the future movies. Butnow I can see Beck from the future."

Steven J. Pemberton , as his mother calls him, snarked about Utilita:"I received this letter from my energy supplier on 10thMay, telling me they were going to install a smart meter at my house on3rd May. (Spoiler: they didn't.) The letter is dated 6th May, so eitherthey think the Doctor is working for them, or the letter has arrivedfrom a parallel universe where time's arrow points in the oppositedirection."

I visited Albuquerque last year. It's not a bad littlecity. For this child of the Cold War, the various museumsand historical sites pertaining to atomic testing wereunsettling. But despite all the atom-splitting that has gone on in the area. It remains firmly fixed to thespace-time continuum, and I assure you that it is indeedin the Mountain time zone, one hour earlier than Los Angeles is.Apparently, one of our auspicious airlines has misplaced it, though. A hungry flier is concerned about the flight duration,wondering "Does this mean there won't be enough time to handout the little bags of pretzels?"

Usher K. thinks that Tracfone's time machine is unrelated to the bomb."My phone plan expired 3 years before cell phones wereinvented!" I hope they aren't still billing you, Usher!

Finally, Francois P. (the P is for punch card) declared "While 19 years ago witnessed the start of the dailywtf (congratulations!), my files have been on the cloudfor 54 years. I'm still not sure which files conflict,but if they've been waiting for 54 years to tell me aboutthis conflict I'm sure it can wait for another year or two."

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