That means anyone who is mining HP has a good 78+ days until they can hope to ever see BTC or USD for their efforts. That is a long time to mine something with nothing to show for it.
http://gawstories.com/dev/HC12345/
The real site hashcoin.com shows 10 days. That gawstories one is probably an older draft version, although it's odd that they would have a fully functional site sitting there on a public server.
Having said that, I think public ICO in either case doesn't mean BTC or USD. "Exchange Launches" step on the timeline is when we can hope to get there. And there is no date on that.
Nov. 24th was the date given for HashPoint for HashCoin ICO. After than HashBase is supposed to open. It is unclear when HashCoins will be exchangeable or useable.
Based on the road map picture it has to be after HashCoin goes public, so at minimum 78 days away. First they have to get it on the exchanges and when it was brought up at Cryptsy no one in the chat really seemed to care.
I believe HashBase will have an exchange of some type built in to it.