Bug in the timestamps in MeFi tabs.

November 27, 2003 7:52 AM

When I view the front page in a mode other than "date" (ie "most comments", etc), the times in GMT are out by 8 hours.
posted by Orange Goblin to bugs at 7:52 AM (3 comments total)

It's fine for me.
posted by squealy at 9:25 AM on November 27, 2003

It's ok for me too
posted by amberglow at 10:08 AM on November 27, 2003

I was going to suggest that your clock may have been infected with spyware, but you may have a point. A thread which was posted at 3:48 PM EST on Nov 22 is stamped as 12:48 PM EST on Nov 22 when listed under "My Commented Threads".

That's three hours, not eight, but EST is five hours' difference from GMT, and five plus three equals eight, which may lead to a conclusion, the nature of which I am not intelligent enough to determine.

Oh, wait, maybe I am: could the alternate listing modes be printing the timestamps in PST, but labelling them as our home time zone?
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:58 AM on November 27, 2003