How does WW calculate posting times?

It's always my local time!

[Sanenet]

Hi guys,

OK, I'm curious. When I post in Spain, my posting time appears at the correct (local) time. I always assumed that it was because I had set my time to GMT+1 in my profile.

BUT... I'm now in the UK, which is GMT (-1 hour from my usual time). I make a posting, and it appears as the correct UK time! But, my posting from the other day (made in Spain) appears as the time I made it in Spain.

So, my questions are:

A.- If a person from say, US NY, looks at my post, does he see the time posted as 13.00 GMT (my time) or 8.00 GMT (his time, assuming that NY is 6 hours behind the UK?) That is, is the posting time local for the reader, or the absolute for the poster?

B.- Is the time of the posting calculated by the IP of the connection? I ask because my computer clock is still on GMT+1 time, which means WBW is not taking the time from my PC.

Just curious, but it seems quite clever to me!

Sanenet.

[Sinner_G]

AFAIK, the posting time is always shown as local time for the viewer. I.e. if someone in Australia posts in his/her local morning, I (being in Europe) will see a time in the middle of the night. Thus your post from the UK, which I assume you made from the same account should show with a wrong time for UK local. But I seem to remember there was a problem because WebmasterWorld time doesn't check on daylight saving times, so can be an hour wrong.

[nakulgoyal]

wow//// I never noticed this thing. Nice feature.

[Stefan]

Is it set in the preferences? I get all posts showing UTC time, (GMT), always have....

[Sinner_G]

@Stefan

Control Panel -> System Preferences -> Top of the page.

[Stefan]

Thanks, sinner_g. I'm so used to UTC now, I think I'll stick with it anyway.

[g1smd]

>> If a person from say, US NY, looks at my post, does he see the time posted as 13.00 GMT (my time) or 8.00 GMT (his time, assuming that NY is 6 hours behind the UK?) <<

GMT is Greenwich Mean Time, and that is the Clock Time that the UK uses only in the Winter months. (The UK uses GMT+1 on their clocks only in their Summer months). If something is posted at 13:00 GMT, then the NY person would see it as being 8:00 (LOCAL time) but NOT 8:00 GMT. Your usage of "GMT" is incorrect. I also fail to see why you say SIX hour difference.

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>> When I post in Spain, my posting time appears at the correct (local) time. I always assumed that it was because I had set my time to GMT+1 in my profile. <<

>> BUT... I'm now in the UK, which is GMT (-1 hour from my usual time). <<

The UK is NOT one hour behind Spain! In the Winter months both the UK and Spain use GMT on their clocks. In the Summer months both places use GMT+1 on their clocks. In the UK this is known as British Summer Time.

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To make things easier to understand you are much better off thinking in terms of UTC than GMT these days, especially since UTC has been the world standard since at least 1971.

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On a related note, when is WW going to offer the time of forum posts in the 24-hour format?