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Time stamps on messages

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-11-28 21:16

I was checking the time stamps on the messages in the thread about the marching band accident that I just responded to to see how long it had been up. Glenn's original post showed a time stamp 2018-11-28 17:09 (5:09 PM on 11/28). After I posted to it, the original post now says 2018-11-18 09:32. Apart from the fact that my having posted seems to have changed the time of the original post, the time that showed at first 5:09 PM today hasn't come yet except somewhere in Europe. Even if the time shown is GMT rather than local time anywhere, why would it have changed?

I noticed, as I looked at the rest of the Topic listings, that a lot of them that I'm pretty sure have been up for more than a day or two also show 2018-11-28 (today, at least here in the U.S.) time stamps.

(1) Are the time stamps showing GMT?

(2) Even if that's the case, why would the dates (never mind the time) seem too recent?

(3) Is this something my browser is doing locally (can the HTML code for the date be interpreted differently in different browsers)?

(4) Why would the date/time stamp for a given thread or post change from one browser session to another?

Thanks for any explanation. I'm sometimes interested to know when a posting was made.

Karl

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Re: Time stamps on messages

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-11-28 21:21

So, out of curiosity, I checked the current Greenwich time. My post above is stamped 21:16. It is now 5:18 PM (17:18) at Greenwich. So, that isn't the explanation.

Karl

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Re: Time stamps on messages

Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2018-11-28 22:22

1) The server is on GMT, but I'll bet baked in somewhere is a configuration option for offset from GMT that's been set incorrectly.

2) No idea! Why it would jump backwards is beyond me except perhaps if something is edited it gets wacky.

3) Yes, it's possible, but we've got no code that does that.

4) It doesn't. The date & time aren't (or shouldn't be) browser based. But ... editing your own post may do something weird.

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Re: Time stamps on messages

Author: Burt
Date: 2018-12-01 18:29

My recent post on aging is dated 9 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.

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