jim the hairy on 10/4/2002 at 14:22
Has TTLG gone over to local summer time and not taken that into account in the thread times? My profile is set to GMT+1 at the moment, which is correct since we're now on BST (British Summer Time for you non-poms). Forum times were OK at the weekend but have now jumped forward by an hour. Looks like the machine serving TTLG has changed its clock.
Gingerbread Man on 10/4/2002 at 16:42
lemme check something
*posts*
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Nope, it's all good.
Maybe what's confusing is that North American times just jumped forward an hour for that whole Daylight Savings shenaniganry. That was last weekend (God only knows why your side of the Atlantic and ours shift their clocks weeks apart, but there you have it).
Currently quarter to one in the afternoon here, according to my PC, and I know that's showing the correct time adjusted for the idiocy that is "Spring Forward"
;)
Gingerbread Man on 11/4/2002 at 02:28
Just noticed an impossible post from the FUTURE in ThiefGen, stamped a half-hour from now...
Perhaps there is further weirdness afoot.
*GBM notes that his PC says it is more or less 10pm, and posts to see what the forums say now
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Buh.
I would have believed a full hour difference... but 30 minutes?
There's something odd here, and it might be my PC, but I'm not sure...
*asks around
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Television, sweet bringer of truth and information uncorrupted by weirdness or bias, tells me that it is indeed 10:30ish around here.
So that means my PC went Weird on meh...
Grrr....
Carry on. ;)
jim the hairy on 11/4/2002 at 11:41
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Originally posted by Gingerbread Man
Maybe what's confusing is that North American times just jumped forward an hour for that whole Daylight Savings shenaniganry.Which is precisely my point. What TTLG claims is GMT isn't, it's a sort of pseudo-GMT adjusted for US summer time. GMT doesn't change according to local summer. My preferences give the correct time adjustment, but times are still wrong.
Elenkis on 11/4/2002 at 13:41
Eh, times are all correct for me... and I am using GMT.
My clocks say it is now 2:40.
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Yup, post time correctly says 2:40 GMT.
jim the hairy on 11/4/2002 at 15:26
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Originally posted by Elenkis Eh, times are all correct for me... and I am using GMT.
No you aren't. You're using BST, which is GMT+1. Last week GMT+1 gave the correct times, now it doesn't, because the US have changed their clocks but TTLG hasn't taken this into account in calculating what GMT is.
At the moment it's 3:25pm GMT but 4:25pm local time. Got it?
Elenkis on 11/4/2002 at 16:19
Ok, now I see what you're getting at. But I think it's a bit picky. As you say, the server machine has gone forwards an hour and the boards don't take into account BST, just keep your settings as GMT and don't worry about it. Even Windows still calls it GMT :)
sailoreagle on 11/4/2002 at 17:20
Wait a second - tell me if I understood you correctly. You are complaining because a piece of software sitting on an American server does not take into account the fact that European people switch to daylight savings time (or whatever you want to call it... BST, daylight savings, it doesn't matter, it's still the clocks going an hour forward) a week before American people do? Just adjust your timezone accordingly. I didn't even bother moving my timezone from GMT+1 to GMT+2 when the switch occured over here (Italy), because I knew that in a week or so, America would follow suit and the forum time would switch forward too. Just set your timezone back to GMT. It does not matter if it's erroneously called GMT instead of BST or whatever. You're being overly picky, IMNSHO.
[EDIT] Happy now, mr. Picky Elenkis? ;)
Elenkis on 11/4/2002 at 18:14
Actually it's a British piece of software :D
But yeah, you pretty much said what I was trying to.
jim the hairy on 11/4/2002 at 18:23
Well in that case it's got no excuse ;) Actually I'm complaining because it tries to correct for GMT but gets it wrong. I wouldn't have said anything if it'd said "all times are EST+whatever". <small>or even "all times are London time, except for 2 weeks a year when we get out of sync"</small>. Yes I know I could just set GMT and forget about it, but it seems ... kludgy, somehow.
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You're being overly picky, IMNSHO.
Damn right. :devil: If you can't bitch about something completely inconsequential from time to time what can you do?
<small>I swear at my computer twice a year when it switches times for me. "It's not Daylight Saving, it's British Summer Time, dammit!" Oh, and while we're at it, what the hell is "British English"?</small>
