Time change issue
Apr 17, 2003 | 5:49 pm
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Time change issue
I am in Arizona where we don't change our clocks to observe daylight savings time. Since most of the rest of the country changed their clocks ealier this month, the time stamp on FT posts are one hour off for me. In other words, if it is 4:44 pm here right now, something posted on FT at this instant would show up on my list as 5:44. (The time on my computer is correct at 4:44 pm.) This did not used to be the case. Is there something I can do to change this or is it just something that I'll have to compensate for until we change the clocks again in the Fall?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Apr 17, 2003 | 8:37 pm
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The FlyerTalk clock is always set to Colorado Springs time and always records posts by whatever time it is there when they come in. By coincidence, your home location happens to be on the same time during the winter months. Most of the world never is. My posts always show up as being made two hours earlier than I think they are, unless I'm traveling in which case they could be nearly anytime.
That's also why you see lots of posts made at weird hours of the morning. It's not a weird hour where they're made from; it just is in Colorado.
That's also why you see lots of posts made at weird hours of the morning. It's not a weird hour where they're made from; it just is in Colorado.
Apr 18, 2003 | 10:27 am
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How funny! And here I thought there was some initial setting or cookie that was planted on my system some months back that adjusted FT for my time zone. In reality, I'm just lucky enough to share Colorado Springs' time zone six months of the year. I guess I'm more fortunate than most -- I'll settle for that. 
Thanks for the clarificaton, Efram.
Thanks for the clarificaton, Efram.
Apr 18, 2003 | 2:10 pm
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I also assumed that there was some cookie or IP thingie that was used to match FT time to my local time (which is the same time as Colorado Springs year round.) I guess I just live in the best time zone.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by AZ Travels the World:
How funny! And here I thought there was some initial setting or cookie that was planted on my system some months back that adjusted FT for my time zone. In reality, I'm just lucky enough to share Colorado Springs' time zone six months of the year. I guess I'm more fortunate than most -- I'll settle for that.
Thanks for the clarificaton, Efram.</font>
How funny! And here I thought there was some initial setting or cookie that was planted on my system some months back that adjusted FT for my time zone. In reality, I'm just lucky enough to share Colorado Springs' time zone six months of the year. I guess I'm more fortunate than most -- I'll settle for that.
Thanks for the clarificaton, Efram.</font>
Apr 18, 2003 | 2:17 pm
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Welcome to the "Rest of the world", where we have always had to cope with the typical American attitude of "The USA is the Centre Of The Universe and we will make everyone else conform to that".
Plenty of other bulletin boards manage to provide some mechanism for setting the timezone which posts are displayed in, I am led to believe that UBB does the same.
So why doesn't it?
Dave
Plenty of other bulletin boards manage to provide some mechanism for setting the timezone which posts are displayed in, I am led to believe that UBB does the same.
So why doesn't it?
Dave
Apr 18, 2003 | 2:39 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by thadocta:
Welcome to the "Rest of the world", where we have always had to cope with the typical American attitude of "The USA is the Centre Of The Universe and we will make everyone else conform to that".
Plenty of other bulletin boards manage to provide some mechanism for setting the timezone which posts are displayed in, I am led to believe that UBB does the same.
So why doesn't it?
Dave</font>
Welcome to the "Rest of the world", where we have always had to cope with the typical American attitude of "The USA is the Centre Of The Universe and we will make everyone else conform to that".
Plenty of other bulletin boards manage to provide some mechanism for setting the timezone which posts are displayed in, I am led to believe that UBB does the same.
So why doesn't it?
Dave</font>
No UBB version offers the possibility to change the time, even the newest versions runnin on MySQL don't offer this option.
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Apr 18, 2003 | 2:47 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by thadocta:
Welcome to the "Rest of the world", where we have always had to cope with the typical American attitude of "The USA is the Centre Of The Universe and we will make everyone else conform to that".
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Welcome to the "Rest of the world", where we have always had to cope with the typical American attitude of "The USA is the Centre Of The Universe and we will make everyone else conform to that".
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Apr 18, 2003 | 3:26 pm
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If we change to different software at some point personal time settings will probably be part of the package -- as noted UBB does not support that option.
BTW, we don't think that the USA is the center of the universe -- I personally however am fairly certain that Colorado Springs is the center of the universe.
Then again I could be wrong.
BTW, we don't think that the USA is the center of the universe -- I personally however am fairly certain that Colorado Springs is the center of the universe.
Then again I could be wrong.