I just checked in r24417 which changes the "0" for times on Mac &
Linux (used to mean 1970) to match Windows (1601). This means that the
profiles can be copied between systems without getting the dates all
wrong, and should also fix some bugs related to cookie expiration (
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=14734 ).
This will be in the release notes of the next dev version affected,
but I wanted to add some extra info for developers who may be
affected.
When you run a version of Chrome after this, it will do a one-time
update of your history database to change the times, so you may notice
additional lag before the new tab page or autocomplete results are
available. You shouldn't have to worry about exiting in the middle of
this process, it should recover.
It deletes the full text index of your history, which, because of its
size, didn't seem worth updating. You won't get full text search
results from before the upgrade, but any browsing after that will be
indexed. It also deletes any history older than 3 months rather than
migrates it (this won't affect most users of Mac & Linux, since they
haven't been using it that long).
You can load the updated profile in previous versions of Chrome, but
the dates will be far into the future, and any data added by the old
version will be wrong and won't be fixed when you start using the new
one again.
Brett
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