Time and timestamps in the forum

[mjflory]

Perhaps this is more a query than a thread, but I'm puzzled by the timestamping of posts. I thought all times were US Eastern Daylight (until the end of October, presumably) which is GMT-4 hrs. But at about 8PM I wrote a quick reply to an ad (a comment on the Kodak Retina for sale) and it was time-stamped October 17, 12:00. The time of day on the front page is correct, however. (Right now it's 20:31.) Could this be a bug in vBulletin, or could the server's clock be off?

Thanks,
Michael

 

[wotalegend]

AFAIK the timestamp you see should be the time zone you set in your options. Mine always show as GMT +10 because that is the time zone I live in and have set in the RFF options. You can also set it to automatically adjust for daylight saving. 🙂

 

[back alley]

you have to set that up in the user cp above.

 

[BrianShaw]

Time check. 7:53

 

[mjflory]

I did feel a bit -- er, chronocentric, thinking that everyone else had to use Eastern US time. Glad to know I could change it in the control panel. Funny think is, though, that the comment I posted in the classifieds was timestamped nowhere near Eastern time (eight hours earlier, in fact) while the note I posted here a little after that had the correct time. Don't think I changed my time zone in the control panel, but I was changing some other things, so I may have done so inadvertently.

"Eccles, what time is it?"
"Just a minute, I've got it written down on a piece of paper here in my pocket."
(Anyone else here old enough to remember the Goons?)

 

[back alley]

the gallery, the classifieds and this forum software seem to be unaware of each other for some applications.

we like it in that we feel it keeps the members on their toes...😉

j/k

 

[mjflory]

Yep, just posted another comment to a classified (for the Super Ricohflex, a fun TLR I used to have) and it's tagged as being posted eight hours ago.
Time travel...

 

[James Burton]

"Eccles, what time is it?"
"Just a minute, I've got it written down on a piece of paper here in my pocket."
(Anyone else here old enough to remember the Goons?)

Don't have to be old, it's still on repeat here more than 50 years later 🙂


What are you doing in that piano?
I'm hidin'
You can't be, he's been dead for years.


Thanks,
James

 

[mjflory]

> Don't have to be old, it's still on repeat here more than 50 years later 🙂

Fantastic! I never heard the original BBC broadcasts -- I heard it from Australia on the shortwave while I was growing up in Milwaukee (just left of Lake Michigan in the middle of the US map)!

Must do a search of some of the transcripts for camera-related ones...