Originally Posted by
mattm199
One of my bookings briefly showed as being for 01 Jan 1970 the other day. I restrained the urge to call and check, and it returned to the 21st century half an hour later!
Hmmm. 1/1/1970 has quite a bit of relevance in parts of the IT world as a "default" (also known as Epoch) time. A little bit similar to your alarm clock or microwave flashing 00:00 or 12:00 when the power goes out and returns.
I suspect that in the Qantas back-end infrastructure, they had a machine which was quite broken, and they went in and fixed it, which solved your issue.