Forum rule #24

Use an NTP time server

[trillianjedi]

Funny things can happen when you set the clock manually after it's drifted a little way off time. Like members posting on threads and their post appearing above the original...

<voice of recent experience>

I recommend you run an NTP time setting daemon ;-)

</voice of recent experience>

TJ

[rogerd]

Sounds like good advice, TJ. What kind of forum software are you running? I don't think all use post time as a sort key for thread building - post number might be more typical.

[trillianjedi]

Good point Roger, I hadn't thought of that - post ID number would be a far preferable way to index thread ordering.

In this particular case, it was phpBB2 that was indexing according to datetime stamp.

I would however think that most forum engines would at least mess up thread "read pointers" (those based on cookies) which was also a problem.

TJ