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The Phenomenon · 07-27-2004, 11:23 PM

Hey

Is it just me or is the time wrong on this forum? I adjusted my time in my preferences to GMT+2, which is my timezone, and the time on the forum says 10:21 while my watch (which I checked BTW) says 9:22.

Is the forum's clock just wrong?

laconic1 · 07-28-2004, 07:47 AM

The time is always right on my computer. The only thing I could think of is if either the timezone is set wrong in your preferences, or if the timezone is set wrong in your computer. Go to Control panel, then Date and Time to check what the time zone is in your computer.

SecretMethod70 · 07-28-2004, 08:36 AM

hmmm...could it be something with Daylight Savings Time? I can tell you the forum clock is right - that much I know. Do they do Daylight Savings in SA? That could be it maybe, or maybe you're just mistaken about your GMT offset. *shrug*

The Phenomenon · 07-30-2004, 03:02 AM

We have no Daylight Savings time. My GMT offset is +2 and IS set correctly for my PC and the forum, and yet time here is an hour fast. This leads me to believe that maybe there is a little bug/typo with this GMT setting in the list on my profile, which makes it +3 maybe?

MSD · 07-30-2004, 11:36 PM

Testing

Works fine for me ... Must be a daylight savings thing, although I can never remember when it starts and ends.

SecretMethod70 · 07-31-2004, 12:02 AM

Since you don't have daylight savings time yet the forum does, your offset changes. What the forum recognizes as GMT is effected by daylight savings time I'm sure, otherwise all of use who do (the majority of users) would need to manually change our own GMT offset when daylight savings came on and off. Technically accurate? Sure. But it'd be a pain in the butt.

The Phenomenon · 08-04-2004, 01:33 AM

Thanks secret method. I was just curious.

07-27-2004, 11:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
The Phenomenon Psycho Location: I think my horns are coming out	The Forum Clock Hey Is it just me or is the time wrong on this forum? I adjusted my time in my preferences to GMT+2, which is my timezone, and the time on the forum says 10:21 while my watch (which I checked BTW) says 9:22. Is the forum's clock just wrong?

07-28-2004, 08:36 AM	#3 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	hmmm...could it be something with Daylight Savings Time? I can tell you the forum clock is right - that much I know. Do they do Daylight Savings in SA? That could be it maybe, or maybe you're just mistaken about your GMT offset. shrug __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

07-30-2004, 03:02 AM	#4 (permalink)
The Phenomenon Psycho Location: I think my horns are coming out	We have no Daylight Savings time. My GMT offset is +2 and IS set correctly for my PC and the forum, and yet time here is an hour fast. This leads me to believe that maybe there is a little bug/typo with this GMT setting in the list on my profile, which makes it +3 maybe? __________________ Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.

07-31-2004, 12:02 AM	#6 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	Since you don't have daylight savings time yet the forum does, your offset changes. What the forum recognizes as GMT is effected by daylight savings time I'm sure, otherwise all of use who do (the majority of users) would need to manually change our own GMT offset when daylight savings came on and off. Technically accurate? Sure. But it'd be a pain in the butt. __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

08-04-2004, 01:33 AM	#7 (permalink)
The Phenomenon Psycho Location: I think my horns are coming out	Thanks secret method. I was just curious. __________________ Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good.

07-28-2004, 07:47 AM	#2 (permalink)
laconic1 Junkie	The time is always right on my computer. The only thing I could think of is if either the timezone is set wrong in your preferences, or if the timezone is set wrong in your computer. Go to Control panel, then Date and Time to check what the time zone is in your computer.

07-30-2004, 11:36 PM	#5 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	Testing Works fine for me ... Must be a daylight savings thing, although I can never remember when it starts and ends.