Author Topic: Forum Time (Read 5086 times)

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #15 on:** March 04, 2019, 09:38:43 PM »

That was short lived - I'm back to being 7 hours behind...

dom · « **Reply #16 on:** March 05, 2019, 01:04:22 PM »

Have you tried unplugging your computer? (Bad joke, I know... )

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #17 on:** March 05, 2019, 05:27:31 PM »

There was a new development after midnight last night that was so unfathomable to me that I had to go to bed rather than even try to process it. While I was 7 hours behind on the forum while visiting it with my computer, for the fun of it I decided to check if I was also 7 hours behind using my phone. I wasn't - visiting with my phone had the correct time. I kept refreshing both the computer and the phone and the situation remained the same.

Now, logically that could make someone think that something about a computer and possibly even specifically my computer was at fault for the 7 hour difference and phones might be immune to whatever the problem is. But let's recall that Uncle Roger also had three flashed-back posts yesterday, so it's not just me. And what's even more significant than Uncle Roger having had them is that Uncle Roger doesn't post with a computer, he uses his phone. So much for any notion that it's only my computer and it doesn't happen with phones.

Thankfully, the time on both my phone and computer are fine so far today. But "so far" may be the operative words there. And even if things remain fine for me today, who's to say the problem won't pop up for someone else like it did for Uncle Roger yesterday...

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #18 on:** March 05, 2019, 11:49:55 AM »

Update: Now my computer AND my phone are off by 7 hours...

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #19 on:** March 05, 2019, 12:12:50 PM »

Here's another wrinkle to blow your mind. I just checked Who's online and the times for almost everyone who's here are all displaying correctly even though my time is off. And I say "almost" because there is one guest who, like me, is off by 7 hours, so at least I'm not alone in being flashed-back. But the main reason why the fact that most guests have the correct time should blow your mind is because the times for everyone else in Who's online should be filtered through my time, meaning, if my time is the hour of 1pm, I should see guest activity as some point during the hour of 1pm and the people on the West Coast, where it's now the hour of 10am should be seeing guest activity during the hour of 10am - but for me nearly all guests are showing correctly as the hour of 1pm even though my time is showing as the hour of 6am, through which I should be seeing them because my time is off.

This is all just mind boggling to me. Has the forum fallen down the rabbit hole with Alice?

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #20 on:** March 05, 2019, 12:21:10 PM »

Now my phone is fine - computer still 7 hours behind...

I think I need to go out to do some errands and just ignore all of this for a few hours...

Uncle Roger · « **Reply #21 on:** March 05, 2019, 07:57:16 PM »

Curiouser and curiouser.

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #22 on:** March 05, 2019, 05:20:34 PM »

Well, it's nice to see that while I was out seemingly nothing changed with the forum on my computer because I'm still 7 hours behind. And my phone is once again 7 hours behind...

Gerard · « **Reply #23 on:** March 06, 2019, 02:43:56 AM »

MB, I think it's time to call in Tangina. Wait until she says: "This house is clean."

Gerard

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #24 on:** March 06, 2019, 03:25:28 AM »

I just noticed that on both my phone and my computer the forum is back to normal. But for how long, who knows?

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #25 on:** March 06, 2019, 04:49:27 PM »

Well, look what happened this morning - dom was flashed-back when he made a post in the "Safe and Secure" topic at 05:22:43am ET but it's listed as 10:22:43pm ET last night (which also happens to be earlier than the post that precedes it, the one I made at 11:18:00pm ET last night while my time was correct).
Uncle Roger and I welcome you to the club, dom!

(And my time is still correct - let's see how long that lasts...)

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #26 on:** March 06, 2019, 12:52:29 PM »

It just dawned on me that dom, Uncle Roger and I are not only all located on the East Coast but also in the same general Northeast region of the country. I wonder if that has any significance with what's happening...

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #27 on:** March 06, 2019, 12:54:29 PM »

Quote from: Gerard on March 06, 2019, 02:43:56 AM

MB, I think it's time to call in Tangina.

You know, it might really be time!!

Gerard · « **Reply #28 on:** March 07, 2019, 02:04:09 AM »

MB, just be careful you don't get sucked into your cellphone or computer. None of us can really afford to call the microsoft supernatural system support. Our credit cards can only handle so much!

"Thank you for calling microsoft's supernatural system support. You're patronage is important to us. Please wait until we connect you to our next available representative. Your wait time is...45 minutes. If you need immediate assistance, start sprinkling holy water." (Background-holding music - Tubular Bells.)

Gerard

Mysterious Benefactor · « **Reply #29 on:** March 07, 2019, 04:53:42 AM »

Well, I see where it was Uncle Roger's turn to get flashed-back with starting his Marilyn Ross topic.

As you can tell from this post, my time is actually correct, which is a surprising change for this time of day because I've mostly been 7 hours off at this time.

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