blocked users have been members since unix epoch

So far I blame the query in user_load() which comes out something like:

SELECT u.* FROM users u WHERE u.uid = 3 AND LOWER(u.status) = '1' AND u.status < 3 LIMIT 0, 1

Then user_load() never calls user_module_invoke() in the db_num_rows() if statement because blocked users don't return because of the LOWER(u.status) = '1' in the query. So when user_user does math on an empty $user object, the date comes out wrong when loading the view page on a blocked user.

I don't know why the if statement of user_view() forces 'status' => 1, but if you remove it, the blocked user "Member since" date is corrected.

function user_view($uid = 0) {
  global $user;

  if ($account = user_load(array('uid' => $uid))) {

The only call I saw for user_view() in grep was in user_page().

One of the side effects of this bug was blocked users didn't have anything show under their History part of their View tab. For example, removing 'status' => 1 will show "view recent blog entries" if you have blog.module loaded. I don't really think that's my position to say if that's a desireable behavior or not, so I'll just leave this hanging. I also don't really know what status > 1 would mean, so it might instead be desireable to make a change so the query in user_load() grabs LOWER(u.status) <= '1'.

appears to be fixed in HEAD