Clock

[lynda66]

mines still broke ..... and i've not got the hoover out, cos i'll have to do it in the morning anyway cos OH is coming ...... hoovering 3 times in one week is a bit excessive

[Hilary B]

So how come putting the clock right messed up so much else? (but it is nice not to be reading posts which say they were posted in 50 mins time......)

[zazen999]

Because if you looked for new posts at 3.30 [old clock] you have to wait until 3:30 [new clock] plus 10 seconds to do another search.

also

Threads started in the hour before the time change [3:20ish old clock] had new posts put before it as the new time would be 2:21.

[coomber]

Yay working now

[Hilary B]

Because if you looked for new posts at 3.30 [old clock] you have to wait until 3:30 [new clock] plus 10 seconds to do another search.

also

Threads started in the hour before the time change [3:20ish old clock] had new posts put before it as the new time would be 2:21.

Aha! that makes sense...... Why didn't they fix it in the middle of the night, when it would be less bother? (or is that too much to expect?)

[Paul]

Every post and thread has a specific and unchangeable timestamp that it derives from the forum. The server the forum is running on has its own clock from which the forum derives its time. If you change the server time, you change the forum time, however posts and threads that were posted before the clock went back an hour then appear to be posted an hour in advance of the current time.

Since by default a forum is laid out in a linear view, it lists posts and threads based upon the time they were posted. Those which appear to be posted an hour ahead appeared above ones that had been created at the correct time. Even though the correct time seemed to be an hour slow, it was in fact later but the forum didn't recognise it.

Makes you feel for all the quantum physicists out there trying to define time... if even the lowly forum clock can make my head hurt!

[HeyWayne]

Aha! that makes sense...... Why didn't they fix it in the middle of the night, when it would be less bother? (or is that too much to expect?)

Even mods have to sleep.

*wipes brown substance from the end of his nose...

[lynda66]

lol paul thanks it's much ermmmm clearer now ..... (i'm so glad i studied biology and not physics) ...... sooooo any news on a piccy???? lol

[jackie j]

I thought I was going mad, been trying to pm people and it said something about 60 second wait but kept saying try again in 3335 or whatever, more than 60 seconds anyhow. phew I anit mad yet then lol!!!

[BrideXIII]

Every post and thread has a specific and unchangeable timestamp that it derives from the forum. The server the forum is running on has its own clock from which the forum derives its time. If you change the server time, you change the forum time, however posts and threads that were posted before the clock went back an hour then appear to be posted an hour in advance of the current time.

Since by default a forum is laid out in a linear view, it lists posts and threads based upon the time they were posted. Those which appear to be posted an hour ahead appeared above ones that had been created at the correct time. Even though the correct time seemed to be an hour slow, it was in fact later but the forum didn't recognise it.

Makes you feel for all the quantum physicists out there trying to define time... if even the lowly forum clock can make my head hurt!

does that mean that the 10 second rule has been totally broken by the added atomic second????? we have been beggered up by quantum 'foam' ?

well i wouldn't worry ..........until it appears to be going backwards, in which case patent it, we may have invented real time travel

[BarleySugar]

Some of the threads are a bit confusing, reading the replies before you find out the original post New game, guess the starter topic.