Time stamp test

[ken_b]

Trying to see if the time stamp is wrong

Looks like it is, it's actually 12:13 right now but the time stamp shows 12:25

Anyone else seeing this?

[Fotiman]

My current time is 1:37 pm, and I see...12:50 pm.

[tangor]

Looking.... Mine is exactly correct.

[not2easy]

OK, I have to look. Time for me is 4:43, it is stamped as 4:43 for me.

[tangor]

OK, I have to look. Time for me is 4:43, it is stamped as 4:43 for me.

Curious. Time entered to me was 2:43 (I have mine set to utc-6/Houston) where are you?

[Andy Langton]

Ping!

Edit: time is correct for me.

[ken_b]

3:25

Looks right now, wonder what the deal was?

[not2easy]

@tangor -

Curious. Time entered to me was 2:43 (I have mine set to utc-6/Houston) where are you?

UTC-4 at about 66W longitude x 18N latitude - extreme SE US.

[lucy24]

wonder what the deal was?

That reminds me that a few days ago, everything seemed to be timestamped 1 hour early. I wondered if WebmasterWorld's server was located in a state with its own quirky individual Daylight Savings rules.

And then there was the Polish robot from some years back whose UA string included a timestamp-- presumably to forestall efforts to block it by an exact-text match-- enabling me to see that their server time was off by several minutes.

[ken_b]

That reminds me that a few days ago, everything seemed to be timestamped 1 hour early.

Yeah, I saw that too. I thought daylight savings had come early, but that would have been the other direction, I think :)

I'm easily confused.

[tangor]

extreme SE US.

Natch. Looks like all our clocks are working correctly!

[ken_b]

It's 11:29 PM CDT

Time stamp is 10:29

[lucy24]

Did you forget to change your settings? Remember, WebmasterWorld is one of those old-fashioned forums where you have to do it manually. Four months of the year I'm in Pacific time; the rest it's Mountain time.

[ken_b]

uhhhh ... oh yeah :)

[whitespace]

....change your settings?

Bit of an aside, but what's the "3 Character Time Zone ID" for in settings? Is this purely cosmetic?

[lucy24]

Heh, never noticed that before. But it doesn't make much sense, does it? Mine currently says "(pst -7)" ... although the timestamp isn't pst (or, for that matter, mst or pdt) minus anything. It should really say
pdt (utc -7)
where the first part is the bit you change, and the second part is unchanging.

:: noting with interest that the dropdown says "Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, New Delhi" for a total of three (out of four) outdated city names* ::


* First time I saw the name "Chennai" I had to go look it up. Nobody told me they'd renamed Madras. Surprised the dropdown doesn't still say Leningrad.

[Robert Charlton]

Four months of the year I'm in Pacific time; the rest it's Mountain time.

I'm in California too, lucy, and I'd considered doing it that way, but figured it would be better to communicate real time zone than a faux location, thought both are misleading when they're wrong. ;)

So, it's 12:35am here on March 24 as I'm about to submit the post, and I see that I'm an hour younger.

I also see that the minutes are glitchy... sometimes it's right on with my computer clock, and sometimes it's not.

PS: Way off... maybe back-timed to when I started the post. I'll try another, with just the time.

[Robert Charlton]

12:27am

[Robert Charlton]

12:37am

[tangor]

When clocks are off by minutes (or hour and minutes) it sometimes points to the time sync most OS use these days. Might want to check to make sure your time sync is actually working. Though not as big a problem as it was back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, your motherboard battery might slow things down a bit, particularly if you actually turn your machine off for a period of time each 24 hours.

Meanwhile, I'd like to jump on the soapbox and say that Daylight Savings needs to die a quiet death. Ben Franklin was KIDDING when he first suggested it in a satirical article regarding candle wax. Our natural Circadian rhythm are tied to the earth's rotation, axis, and orbit around the sun ... have been for what ... 2,000,000 years and burned into the genetic code? Please, let Daylight Savings perish. And while I'm... whoops, slipped off my soapbox. I'll .... (yank ... long sheep hook snags neck...)

[whitespace]

Ok, I'm curious...
My local time is 08:27 (3 minutes ahead of "post" time) - my local time is correct.

[lucy24]

figured it would be better to communicate real time zone than a faux location

Oh, I never change the visible "pst" part. I meant in the behind-the-scenes section where you tell the system how many hours to subtract.

My local time

Huh. I don't think I even have a local time. I have whatever time the computer says it is-- currently 10:36-- but who knows where, exactly, that comes from. My "local" time is the time on the battery-operated clock on my wall, which runs fast and has to be reset every few months so it doesn't get ridiculous.

Edit: Oh, I see what you mean. I've gained three minutes. Or have I lost them? Someone needs to go kick WebmasterWorld's server, probably. It can happen. My logs were once several minutes out of whack for a week or more until I got someone's attention. Query: How come my computer knows what time it is but servers don't? Are server clocks purely mechanical?