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Alex posted 27-10-2002 17:06 GMT
I don't know why the time setting on this server keeps jumping back and forth, but it does and it's quite irritating. According to my clock it's 11.09pm GMT...
Alex posted 27-10-2002 23:09 GMT
The time might be vaguely correct now.
Computer Whizz posted 27-10-2002 23:47 GMT
The server could be seeing your time and putting it to it's standard time... I doubt that though.
It could just be a bug in the message board code, or server installation, ect... How many times have messages gone missing, ect...
Computer Whizz
Alex posted 28-10-2002 19:01 GMT
It's because the actual time according to the server changes, and since the server belongs to the web hosts, it's their fault! :)
The forum software allows me to set an offset, so I can add a number of hours to the time the server thinks it is, to get the time displayed to be GMT (rather than the server's time zone, which would depend on where it is... it's in Canada somewhere). To get GMT, this offset has to be either +1 or +7, depending what mood the server's in (or how often tera-byte keep fiddling with the configuration).
Complicated I know...
Messages have gone missing in the past when the server has run out of disk space, usually because the log files have grown massive, which is rather silly and something you'd have thought would be configured to be deleted more sensibly.

Author	Topic: Testing again
Alex	posted 27-10-2002 17:06 GMT I don't know why the time setting on this server keeps jumping back and forth, but it does and it's quite irritating. According to my clock it's 11.09pm GMT...
Alex	posted 27-10-2002 23:09 GMT The time might be vaguely correct now.
Computer Whizz	posted 27-10-2002 23:47 GMT The server could be seeing your time and putting it to it's standard time... I doubt that though. It could just be a bug in the message board code, or server installation, ect... How many times have messages gone missing, ect... Computer Whizz
Alex	posted 28-10-2002 19:01 GMT It's because the actual time according to the server changes, and since the server belongs to the web hosts, it's their fault! :) The forum software allows me to set an offset, so I can add a number of hours to the time the server thinks it is, to get the time displayed to be GMT (rather than the server's time zone, which would depend on where it is... it's in Canada somewhere). To get GMT, this offset has to be either +1 or +7, depending what mood the server's in (or how often tera-byte keep fiddling with the configuration). Complicated I know... Messages have gone missing in the past when the server has run out of disk space, usually because the log files have grown massive, which is rather silly and something you'd have thought would be configured to be deleted more sensibly.