I didn't know about it until one of my submissions was chosen as a second chance. Just one of the many features that old-timers have to pass on to the new blood
Yeah, but that's different from what they're talking about. It looks like the code for comment timestamps has a bug where the human-readable version keys off the updated story timestamp or something?
No, what happens when an old submission goes through that invited/second-chance process is that any comments made on the submission would have their timestamps updated, so comments I left days ago, could show up as being made hours/minutes ago, although I didn't personally repost them. Exactly what parent describes.
I'm guessing HN either by choice or by accident shows the "original timestamp" in that title attribute, while the user-facing rendering shows the newly bumped timestamp.
Interesting you've been here at least since then and haven't noticed it before, happens relatively often, dare I say at least once a day?