BajaNomad - Clock screwed up?

Clock screwed up?

Anonymous - 5-7-2005 at 04:56 AM

I obviously updated the settings on the server for now.... to the detriment of the abilty to post - including for myself.

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Doug Means

BajaNomad - 5-7-2005 at 05:15 AM

Nightmare....

Had to go in and alter the code to allow people to post.

There's a setting in the code to prevent a flood of posts by a single user, only in this case since new posts were being made "earlier" than previous posts, users could not post at all... until the timestamp of any earlier posts passed.

If that makes any sense....

Darn it.

Clock screwed up?

Dave - 5-7-2005 at 09:34 AM

How come my clock says 9:30am 5/7 when it's 7:30pm 5/6? I've checked my settings and DST time is correct.

David K - 5-7-2005 at 10:02 AM

Hose A... what a great illustration of 'progress'! :lol:

David K - 5-7-2005 at 10:04 AM

Clock is fixed... thanks Doug!

woody with a view - 5-7-2005 at 11:16 AM

if someone would please post saturdays $56 million winning lotto numbers we'd all have, say, 20minutes to buy our slices of the pie. :lol:

:moon:

[Edited on 5-7-2005 by woody in ob]

BajaNomad - 5-7-2005 at 07:24 PM

Have been making some hardware changes to the server beginning on Monday and will continue until ???

I believe the clock time on the server may have changed in the process... I'll get to it after hardware is updated and working as needed.

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Doug

Skipjack Joe - 5-17-2005 at 06:56 AM

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Originally posted by David K
Clock is fixed... thanks Doug!

Let's see if you're right...

Skipjack Joe - 5-17-2005 at 07:00 AM

Nope. It's 5/17 7AM and the clock shows 5/17 2:36PM. Maybe it was right earlier.

There's no rhyme or reason to these settings. They don't match any timezone. Frankly, it's frustrating, Doug.

David K - 5-17-2005 at 07:59 AM

10 days before, it was fine and is okay this morning on my pc. 7:59 am on Nomad and my pc... they are in-sync.

[Edited on 5-17-2005 by David K]

BajaNomad - 5-17-2005 at 12:55 PM

Let's have a look-see....

BajaNomad - 5-17-2005 at 01:01 PM

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Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Nope. It's 5/17 7AM and the clock shows 5/17 2:36PM. Maybe it was right earlier.

There's no rhyme or reason to these settings. They don't match any timezone. Frankly, it's frustrating, Doug.

Lets review this again.

This board resides on the Internet and is accessed worldwide... that means 24 time zones.

So, each user can be in a different time zone anywhere in the world at the same moment.

Thusly, it is common for Internet sites to reference GMT, or Greenwich Mean Time. If you access this board, and you are NOT signed in, that is the time that you see.

If you are a registered user, you can personalize the time setting in your control panel in relation to GMT.

Pacific STANDARD Time is -8.00 hours in relation to GMT, and Mountain STANDARD Time, as well as Pacific DAYLIGHT Time are -7.00 hours in relation to GMT.

Skipjack Joe, you have your setting at 0.00 - or GMT presently. If you would like the board to reference your local time, wherever that may be, you'll need to change that setting in your user control panel.

Let me know if you have any futher questions about this.

Thanks,
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Doug Means

Skipjack Joe - 5-17-2005 at 05:16 PM

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Originally posted by BajaNomad

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Got it! Thanks for your patience.

The remaining mystery is why wasn't GMT exactly 7 hours different from Pacific time. It came out to be on the half hour - either a 6 1/2 or 7 1/2 difference. Another words the post was at 7AM Pacific time and 2:36 AM GMT.

Getting these timestamps right makes a big difference for me. I use them to help me know which forum has posted since I last read it. Maybe there's another way.......(hint)

[Edited on 5-18-2005 by Skipjack Joe]