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Testing. 1, 2, 3... / Re: Time Traveling AND an earthquake?
« on: June 28, 2004, 05:59:23 PM »The time is out of joint ...
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Regarding this forum, last evening, I'd guess somewhere around 5 or 6 p.m., I posted a notice about Dan Curtis' "The Love Letter" airing later that night and another post. Not too much later, I returned to the board (under the cloak of anonymity) and noticed that the board said that I had made the Love Letter post at 10:30 p.m. "yesterday" (i.e., the day before). Now, I may be confused from time to time, but I know whether half an hour has passed or an entire day ... (maybe Hamlet's madness is affecting me. Or maybe I'm feigning Hamlet's madness. Or ...)
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But as for the time travel ... now this morning, the Time seems to have righted itself ...
The problem was that you read the forum "under the cloak of anonymity". When you're not logged in, you see everything in terms of GMT because that's the forum's default time frame. But when you're logged in, you see the time in terms of the offset you've entered into the "Look and Layout Preferences" page in your profile.
For example, this post says that I made it at 12:59:23pm my time, but if I logout, it says that I made it at 5:59:23pm. Similarly, anyone who's not logged in sees that your Love Letter post was made at 10:48:54pm yesterday.