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Sun 21 Mar, 2010 01:04 pm
Can someone explain to me how the time stamp here works? Usually, it seems to be about one hour difference with the time where i am (Eastern Time Zone), which suggests that it's based on the Central Time Zone of the United States. Right now, though, it appears to be a two hour difference--as though it were the Mountain Time Zone of the U.S.
Anyone?
@Setanta,
they told me they had to stamp my hand so i could get back in if i left
OK, this is seriously weird. I based my two hour comment on a post which had the time stamp "12:51 p.m." Now that same post has the time stamp "1:51 p.m."
Help i'm slippin' into the Twilight Zone
Feels like a madhouse
Feels like bein' cloned . . .
@Setanta,
go to settings and change it...
(it is under your control, boss)
@Setanta,
Well, whenever we go to or from daylight savings, we have to go to preferences and make a change. Mine (Mountain time zone) needs to be set to either -6 hours or -7 hours relative to Greenwich. Is it possible you changed settings and went the wrong way? That's all I can think of that would give you a two hour error.
@djjd62,
I'm afraid to leave now . . .
@Setanta,
Mine works ... how I've set it, under "My Preferences"
time keeps on slippin' (slippin')
into the future
@Setanta,
lemme know, Ive often pondered the same thing because Im often doing A2K stuff during a lull, and I do it from A blackberry thingy. When I used the post as a time check I was pweriodically off for no apparent reason.
Its probably a GHT issue.
@roger,
See my later post, Roger. The post that made me think of it was two hours off my time zone, but when i went back to "New Posts," the time stamp had changed, and it was only an hour off.
I only use the time stamp as a guide to whether or not i've read a particular post. Still, it's somewhat unsettling . . . i don't intend to change my settings, though, it's not that important to me.
Mostly, this thread is motivated by curiosity.
@Setanta,
it doesn't seem to take DST into consideration, until the other week my time was correct now it's an hour behind
@djjd62,
The question is, Dj, what have we really saved?
@djjd62,
djjd62 wrote:
it doesn't seem to take DST into consideration, until the other week my time was correct now it's an hour behind
Because with UTM/GMT there's no DST.
@Walter Hinteler,
Interesting if it did. Just imagining a sailor using conventional navagation throwing in the towel and deciding "I just can't get there from here!".
@Setanta,
Well, hell no. Wait a half year and it should be back to normal.
@roger,
my time's always all wonky.
I'm too lazy to change it.
Ok, I'm gonna do it now.
I'll be back.
@chai2,
I feel so much better now.
@roger,
Well, I honestly think that I became used to changing times after my time as a conscript in the navy: there had been days when I had to change a couple of times during a 24 h period since anytime we casted of we went from 'A' (local time) to 'Z' (=GMT). [I was in starboard watch, and 99 times out 100 our watch was the one to do an extra hour ...]
@roger,
Good idea . . . the path of least resistance . . .
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