Is this fourm working properly

[Anonymous]

The dates and times of the recent posts don't seem you be right.

[jefelectric]

Well my computer says it is 10:10 now, but then it is usually off a few minutes.

[Anonymous]

Jefelectric...My computer says you posted your reply  at 3:14 am today. That's strange.....and I just saw my reply at 3:21am

[pbjwilson]

Everything is fine with my computer and this forum, but twice in the last week my cell phone was giving me strange time readings. Something in the atmosphere? Radiation drifting over from North Korea?

Is your computer in the basement? Thats where I was when I got the strange times on my cell phone. Could be reading China time if the basement is a deep one.

[Anonymous]

Just checking to see what time this reply has marked down in the gray line that indicates the time that this is being sent. It's 7:26 DST in NY.

[Anonymous]

Just checked the time and marked down as today 12:28 pm . How can I contact a moderator on this fourm to see what's going on? This post will be sent at 7:32am.10/17

[phillyreading]

The time used on the forum is about an hour slow compared to EST time, maybe a few minutes slow by your computer's clock, but more than 15 minutes off is not correct to me either. If the date is off then the administrater needs to check into this is what I think.

Lee F.

[Anonymous]

Phillyreading ....my computer clock is correct. The minutes are correct but there is a differance of about 7 hours.I when over to the community fourm and posted the trouble and I hope some one will see it. I am on the OGR fourm too and the times are perfect over there. All of the posts that come up are about 7 hrs. off .How do you get in touch with one of the monitors here?.....Felix the time now is 9:33 am when this get put on. And on this reply it shows  2:35 pm

[Neil B.]

Hi guys,

Yes, the clock is several hours off. The info systems guys already know.

For those of you on the East Coast that find postings are 1 hour different, our trains run on Central Daylight Time out here!

Thanks,
Neil Besougloff
editor

[lionelsoni]

You might also check your profile for your time-zone selection.  I don't know what effect it might have on the behavior of the forum, however.

The terminology used there is a little screwy:  Although time zones are designated as relative to "GMT", which is no longer kept, they are actually relative to UTC, except that they seem to be modified for daylight-saving time, which UTC does not and GMT did not observe.  I suspect that the daylight-saving shift is according to the US rules and is applied universally, even to areas that do not use it or use different rules.

 

[phillyreading]

Other than the hour or two for time zones I have no problem with the posted time on the forum.

Lee F.

[Anonymous]

You might also check your profile for your time-zone selection.  I don't know what effect it might have on the behavior of the forum, however.

I checked their profiles and they are set to "GMT, Dublin, London" time, so six hours ahead of the server time which is CST.

I suspect that the daylight-saving shift is according to the US rules and is applied universally, even to areas that do not use it or use different rules.

That would be correct.  The time a post is made is recorded using the server time.  The time displayed is then modified by the timezone selected in your profile.  Since we're in the US and our server times are set accordingly, when the daylights saving shift occurs so does the time on our servers.

[Kelly Shaw]

Hi Guys,

Here're four easy steps to re-set your time zone:

1) Make sure you're logged in
2) Go to the forums
3) Click on “Update Profile”
4) Update timezone and hit “Save Changes”

[Anonymous]

Thanks OGR the dublin ireland time was changed in my profile and every thing seems to working ok now.......Felix