Late acceptances of story-identification answers

Question

This story-identification question was asked on June 16, 2013; I answered it on July 1, 2013; and my answer was accepted today, April 23, 2021, almost 8 years later. Is this a record?

Answer 1

Looks like it. The previous record was about 7 years.

Short story about two brothers leading an expedition to the prehistoric past, one (Orren? Owen?) is killed and erased from history

Our overall record of over 8 years hasn't been broken, though.

What evidence supposedly supports Tau as related to the Necrontyr?

Here's the top 15 at the time of answering (yours isn't in SEDE yet).

Question	Tags	AnswerDate	AcceptDate	DaysBetween
What evidence supposedly supports Tau as related to the Necrontyr?	warhammer-40k	2012-08-31	2021-01-08	3052
Gaiman's Hamnet	comicsneil-gaiman	2012-07-20	2020-09-25	2989
Why Was the Burrow Burned Down in Half-Blood Prince?	harry-potter	2012-05-31	2020-05-06	2897
How does Bruce travel from The Pit to Gotham City?	dcbatmannolan-batman-trilogythe-dark-knight-rises	2012-08-18	2020-06-11	2854
How do the mutant levels correlate with the mutant classifications?	marvelx-men	2011-11-23	2019-09-10	2848
What happened to Pixie in the mines of Abergylid?	marvelx-men	2012-06-16	2020-03-24	2838
Why did Lily's enchantments work for Voldemort?	harry-pottervoldemortmagical-theory	2013-02-24	2020-05-06	2628
Short story about two brothers leading an expedition to the prehistoric past, one (Orren? Owen?) is killed and erased from history	story-identificationtime-travelshort-storiesprehistoric	2011-09-10	2018-10-08	2585
Where does the girl from episode 15 end up in the next episode?	sliders	2013-09-19	2020-09-30	2568
How did the Witch King of Angmar get his sword back?	tolkiens-legendariumthe-lord-of-the-ringsadaptation-comparisonnazgul	2013-04-28	2020-05-06	2565
Who Inherited Bag End?	the-lord-of-the-ringstolkiens-legendariumthe-hobbit	2013-07-09	2020-05-06	2493
How did Snape get the fake Sword of Gryffindor into Gringotts?	harry-potter	2013-07-15	2020-05-06	2487
Do all Federation starships have stasis chambers for the entire crew?	star-trekstar-trek-voyager	2011-12-19	2018-07-31	2416
When was Hogwarts founded?	harry-potterhogwarts	2012-06-17	2019-01-18	2406
Why does Bifur have an axe in his head?	tolkiens-legendariumthe-hobbit	2012-09-03	2019-04-02	2402

Answer 2

I created the following SEDE query to test this:

SELECT a.Id AS [Post Link],
       a.CreationDate AS [Answer Time],
       v.CreationDate AS [Accept Time],
       CONVERT(varchar, DATEDIFF(s, a.CreationDate, v.CreationDate) / 86400)
     + ':'
     + CONVERT(varchar, DATEADD(ms, (DATEDIFF(s, a.CreationDate, v.CreationDate) % 86400) * 1000, 0), 114)
     AS [Difference]
FROM Posts a
JOIN Votes v ON a.Id = v.PostId
WHERE VoteTypeId = 1
AND DATEDIFF(s, a.CreationDate, v.CreationDate) > 31557600
ORDER BY DATEDIFF(s, a.CreationDate, v.CreationDate) DESC

The top 5 results are as follows:

Answer	Answer Time	Accept Time	Answerer	Questioner	Difference
What evidence supposedly supports Tau as related to the Necrontyr?	2012-08-31 23:22:28	2021-01-08 00:00:00	Thaddeus Howze	AncientSwordRage	3051:00:37:32
Gaiman's Hamnet	2012-07-20 21:56:52	2020-09-25 00:00:00	dlanod	Andrés E. Caicedo	2988:02:03:08
Why Was the Burrow Burned Down in Half-Blood Prince?	2012-05-31 07:48:43	2020-05-06 00:00:00	Tango	Slytherincess	2896:16:11:17
How does Bruce travel from The Pit to Gotham City?	2012-08-18 18:21:59	2020-06-11 00:00:00	Jack B Nimble	Wipqozn	2853:05:38:01
How do the mutant levels correlate with the mutant classifications?	2011-11-23 02:58:50	2019-09-10 00:00:00	Thaddeus Howze	Jack B Nimble	2847:21:01:10

Your difference actually comes in at roughly 2997 days 20:12:45 and so when SEDE updates it will come in second overall but the top one for story-identification!

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