Terminal - Last login date doesn't make sense. Could someone enlighten me?

I just launched the Terminal and was just about to start running a maintenance routine when I noticed that the "Last login:" date wasn't the date that I actually last logged in. Here's what it displays...
Last login: Tue Aug 4 07:08:24 on console
It states that the last login was Tuesday, August 4th, at 07:08:24 AM. It doesn't state which year, but a quick calendar check shows that the last time August 4th came around on a Tuesday was last year, 2009.
The last time I actually logged into my computer, was this morning, Thursday, July 16th, at 06:41:16 AM
I've dug a bit through my Console logs, but can find no reference to the the August 4th date.
Would anyone have an idea as to why the Terminal would show an old date?
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the response and sorry about my late reply.
I don't use the Terminal often, perhaps a few times per month, but I am familiar with it enough to probably be considered dangerous! Most of my experience with it has been for maintenance on my machine. If I'm having a problem, I typically venture over to macosxhints.com to look for the solution and over the years have learned how to use Terminal from the suggestions I've found there.
Anyway... the issue had continued to persist and seemed very odd to me. I have multiple Macs and the others always showed the correct date and time of my last login whenever I launched Terminal. Since my initial post, I've added larger hard drives to the machine in question and decided to do a clean install of Leopard. Since then, Terminal has been showing the correct date and time of my last login.

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