Incorrect Tooltip Date (01/01/1970) on Road Edits

[khmansour1]

Dear @MortenCopenhagen ,
Dear @MoniDi ,
Dear @TsekoV ,

When I add or delete a road on Google Maps and hover over/check the edit afterward, the tooltip displays 01/01/1970 instead of the actual date I made the edit (e.g., 01/10/2026).

Interestingly, the timestamp shown in my Contributions → Edits list is correct. It seems to be a Unix epoch timestamp glitch (1970-01-01) specifically affecting the tooltip display.

Could you please look into this issue?

CC: @MarcoDavoli

[MortenCopenhagen]

Is this when you hover over an existing or pending roadsegment?

[khmansour1]

@MortenCopenhagen ,

Pending (after I add/delete).

Existing doesn’t have tooltip. I have just put the pin link to my edits in my orignal post.

Regards,

[MortenCopenhagen]

As seen above, I was able to reproduce the bug reported by @khmansour. My example is after adding some road sections and then returning to the road mapper and hovering over the newly added roads.

Please escalate this, @MoniDi.

Cheers

[MoniDi]

Thank you for reporting this issue @khmansour1,

I will share it with the relevant team to check.

[tony_b]

I can confirm a similar experience. I just checked the roads that I drew last night, and they’re dated 1969.

[MarcoDavoli]

hehehe.

Could this be the reason why our approval rate are so low?
Well, low is not the right word.
are not-existing!

10,20,30,40 THOUSAND and higher is my pending!

Hope so.

[tony_b]

@MarcoDavoli

Could this be the reason why our approval rate are so low?

I doubt that’s the reason. Roads are not being approved at all in Road Mapper, and very rarely in Google Maps desktop. I suspect Google is no longer happy with ordinary users adding roads. Unfortunately, Google never announces when they make changes to public participation opportunities.

[Soykot_azam]

Hello Local Guides around the world,
Today, as usual, I was adding roads to Google Maps. After adding one road, I was about to add another road nearby when, out of curiosity, I clicked on the road I had just added.
To my surprise, I noticed something strange. The submission year was showing as 1970 instead of 2026.
To make sure it wasn’t an isolated issue, I checked the next road I had just added in the same way—and it was showing the same incorrect information.

We already know that the approval rate for newly added roads on Google Maps can be quite low. So, seeing this kind of inconsistent information made me wonder:

• Is this issue happening only to me, or are other Local Guides seeing the same thing?
• If others are experiencing it too, what could be the reason and how can it be fixed?
• Could this incorrect date/information have any impact on the approval rate of newly added roads?
• Has anyone else noticed this recently?

I would really appreciate it if fellow Local Guides could check and share your experience.
Tag my beloved @Designer_Biswajit @SholaIB @MarcoDavoli @TerryPG @MortenCopenhagen @PrasadVR & all who loved to added roads.

[SunMoon]

@Soykot_azam well writing. best of luck vai

[TitikMariati]

Semangat dan sukses selalu ya @Soykot_azam

[AbdusSattar]

Yes @Soykot_azam ভাই, This is quite strange! I’ll also check some recently added roads to see if I’m facing the same issue.

[PrasadVR]

@Soykot_azam

I would really appreciate it if fellow Local Guides could check and share your experience.

Hi @Soykot_azam, Thanks for tagging me. I checked three pending (orange) road edits in the same area to see what shows up:

1. Submitted Jan 1, 1970 by you *

2. Submitted Sep 7, 2026 by someone else

3. Submitted Jan 1, 1970 by someone else

• I submitted today.

So you are definitely not alone.

Jan 1, 1970 is the standard default date in computer systems (Unix epoch time) when a system fails to record or fetch the actual timestamp. It looks like a temporary UI glitch or backend sync bug. It is worth flagging.

[tony_b]

@Soykot_azam

• Has anyone else noticed this recently?

I would really appreciate it if fellow Local Guides could check and share your experience.

@SunMoon @TitikMariati, did you notice there was a question in the post by @Soykot_azam? You didn’t offer an answer.

[tony_b]

@Soykot_azam

I was about to add another road nearby when, out of curiosity, I clicked on the road I had just added.
To my surprise, I noticed something strange. The submission year was showing as 1970 instead of 2026.

Yes @Soykot_azam, I can confirm a similar experience. I just checked roads that I drew last night, and they’re dated 1969.

Please also see this thread from two days ago - Incorrect Tooltip Date (01/01/1970) on Road Edits

[PrasadVR]

@tony_b

I just checked roads that I drew last night, and they’re dated 1969.

Hi @tony_b, thanks for sharing this. The 1969 date is actually the same issue as 1970. Computers use Jan 1, 1970 (UTC) as their default start time when a date is missing. Because of your time zone, I think it shows 1969.

[khmansour1]

Hi,

I have already reported it to Google.
And they are working on it.

Regards.

[MortenCopenhagen]

Yes, @khmansour1 already reported this a couple of days ago. So I’m joining the two topics.

[PrasadVR]

@khmansour1

I have already reported it to Google.
And they are working on it.

@MortenCopenhagen

already reported this a couple of days ago. So I’m joining the two topics.

Hi @MortenCopenhagen,

Thanks for merging the threads. I completely missed seeing @khmansour1’s earlier post about it. Good to know it is already reported to the team.

@MarcoDavoli

Could this be the reason why our approval rate are so low?
Well, low is not the right word.
are not-existing!

Hi @MarcoDavoli, Good point. This needs the team’s attention too. Hopefully fixing the date glitch helps resolve the approval backlog as well.

[Designer_Biswajit]

@Soykot_azam

Thanks for mentioning me.

Yes, I also noticed this.