> 13 years of tinfoil hats for srand48(time(NULL)

Probably not quite this given the timestamps span over almost a year (but have some clustering in August 1997).

Given that the spread suggests they weren't just now() timestamps it would actually be interesting to know what the significance of the timestamps is, if any. Though it could be something boring like randomly sampling some local file creation times.

Those are the dates that the NSA obtained quantum computer tech from the alien crash site at Roswell, which would enable them to break the crypto they were currently building