How come my stitemap show a link to a post dated in January 1970? [closed]

Question

I get this link in my site map, but there's no post. http://thinkitcreative.com/blog/1970/01/

Assuming that something in there has been improperly date stamped, how do I find it?

Yup. That was the first place I looked. Nothing there. I'd wondered if this was just some weird WP coding thing.
It seems that the link is going to 404 page, which means that the link doesn't exist in the database. And also there is no post title in the link. Hope this will help.
What are you using to generate your sitemap? Because 1970 JAN 01 is the unix epoch, so it's probably something being fed a bunch of 0's as a date that's doing it...

Kyle · Answer 1 · 2012-02-06 16:38:29Z

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The Unix epoch is the time 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, so you are most likely getting this date because the post doesn't exist.

You can take a look in the wp_posts table and see if the post_date field for any posts show up as 1970-01-01 00:00:00.

I suppose you could just open up the sitemap.xml file and remove the entry as well?

answered Feb 6 '12 at 16:38

Kyle
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	Thanks. I had a look the database and one of my early posts in 2008 is dated properly in the post_date field. But in the second column, post_date_gmt...there's that 1970 date. Rather than risk doing damage to the data based, I deleted the post. Many thanks for the replies. This is a really great resource! – Patrick Feb 11 '12 at 17:54
	@Patrick You should select this as answer if this was resolved – Kyle Feb 12 '12 at 5:59

closed as too localized by Chris_O, toscho♦ Jul 15 '12 at 23:06