We just reached node #200,000, and the results from the contest are in. (drumroll, please)

First of all, node #200,000 was indeed a non-normal node, so the timestamp of #200,001 will be used instead (though it doesn't actually change who won).

The actual timestamp is Sun Sep 22 23:54:58 2002 which was a mere 5 minutes 2 seconds away from gri6507's guess of Mon Sep 23 00:00:00 2002

Congratulations gri6507, you've just won a limited edition perlmonks mug!!!

p.s. See the list of entries to find out how close others came.

p.p.s. The create time was determined by the output of the following script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use XML::Simple;

my $node    = shift || 200_001;
my $url     = "http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=$node&displaytype=xml";
my $xml     = get($url) || die "Can't get $url";
my $parsed  = XMLin($xml);
my $created = $parsed->{'created'};

if ($parsed->{id} == $node) {
  print "Node $node was created at $created\n";
} else {
  print "Data doesn't match node ($parsed->{id} != $node)\n";
}
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-Blake