What a heck??!! - Forum's time...

Darkman · #1 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 02:08 PM

What a heck..

it's 12:05 AM now.. but the forum is showing exactly 12:05 PM..

exactly 12 hours off...

Anyone else?

Just noticed this.. - not sure how long it's been like that...

All time on posts is messed up also (understandably so)

be236 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 02:10 PM

Yeah, I noticed the posting time is "off."

Darkman · #3 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 02:21 PM

and on the bottom of the screen where it shows current time - is wrong too!

I just recently saw exactly the same thing on some other forum..

Wonder what gives.. problem with VB's software maybe.. or?

satnutwillb · #4 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 03:06 PM

Yea,I noticed it too.

Darkman · #5 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 05:01 PM

Looks like the Forum's time is fixed now

Darkman · #6 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 05:04 PM

Looks like the Forum's time is fixed now

Darkman · #7 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 05:08 PM

test test test

rainman · #8 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 07:47 PM

you know how electronincs are DM very finkey.

wejones · #9 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 08:43 PM

On my browser, the time is listed in UTC, but as you say, off by 12 hours. It looks like it's been this way for a long time. I remember noticing this once before. I just looked back at the listing of my past posts, and I see that the times are off as far back as I checked (I checked back to September).
I've done this on my own computer a few times, but I usually catch the problem within a few weeks.

Talk about weird time though, I have one of those WWV clocks sitting next to me here, and every spring/fall when the standard vs daylight time changes, it automatically changes to the new time, however for some reason, when the time gets to midnight UTC after the change, which is 7 or 8 the next evening, suddenly my clock gets confused, and the dials start spinning around, and it evenually stops at the old time (ie in the fall it would have reverted back to EDT instead of EST). Then, after local midnight, it goes crazy again, and reverts back to the proper time, then at 7 or 8 in the evening it goes back to daylight time. Usually after 2 days of this, it settles down on the proper time zone. Really weird, but it does this every spring/fall since I've had the clock (I've had it for about 6 years). I'm convinced that it is confused by the change from AM to PM in UTC. Ie since this clock (and this is true for a lot of computer systems) receives it's time signals in UTC, but at say 8:05 in the evening, it is AM of a different day in UTC, so if say my computer, or the computer in my clock is trying to figure out whether it is AM or PM, or even what day it is, it can get confusing. I know that this can get confusing, because I have written several computer programs that track satellites using the AF elements, and it usually takes me a lot of experimentation to get the time conversions working properly, and very often I would find myself off by 12 or 24 hours, and would be confused when my program would be saying the sats were in the wrong place. I found it amazing that I could write a program that computed sidereal time and track sun/moon and satellites, but I couldn't keep AM/PM straight.
Kind of like needing a 6 year old to program a VCR, the more sophistocated electronics get, the harder it is to determine what time it is.

Darkman · #10 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 09:25 PM

Nope.. it wasn't off before..

Not to my best knowledge anyhow...

When you looked back now - ya.. - it's all off cuz all shifted so to speak..

How i know it wasn't off before yesturday.. cuz even 2 days ago.. when i come here, say, 12:05 AM (my local time) .. - all the Users (on the bottom of the screen there) who visited the forum "today", were gone (as it's supposed to be - cuz 12:05 am is a new day already)

So basically - instead of like 100 users there say.. - it starts fresh and only like 1, 2 or 3, etc Users are shown - who, say, visited the forum between 12:00 am and 12:05 am (as an example)

So.. i come after Midnight this time.. and notice it's already 12:05 am .. but ALL users are still on the bottom there (who visited on a previous day)...
So i knew something was wrong...
Then i looked at the forum's time on the bottom... ------> Observant, eh?

wejones · #11 (**permalink**) 11-04-2006, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darkman

Nope.. it wasn't off before..

Not to my best knowledge anyhow...

When you looked back now - ya.. - it's all off cuz all shifted so to speak..

How i know it wasn't off before yesturday.. cuz even 2 days ago.. when i come here, say, 12:05 AM (my local time) .. - all the Users (on the bottom of the screen there) who visited the forum "today", were gone (as it's supposed to be - cuz 12:05 am is a new day already)

Oh, OK. I didn't realize that it would shift the OLD posting times too.
So you're probably right that it was OK a couple days ago, however I'm pretty sure that I have seen this happen before, but apparently it was corrected.

I think Sadoun mentioned in another thread that he had made some changes to the file system or something recently. Perhaps he changed the time on his computer, and got AM/PM mixed up.