MetaTalk posts tagged with timezone

Timezone bug in Ask?

Pinback — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:41:47 -0800

Timezone bug in Ask? There appears to be a problem with the user time offset setting & AskMefi. Currently, my local & system time is 9.38am, and my user timezone is set to +17hrs (Aust east coast, no DST) from server time. Mefi, Meta, Music & Jobs posts & comments all show correct local times (e.g the most recent post in Mefi shows for me as October 6 @ 6:33am), but Ask doesn't seem to reflect my timezone properly - the time in the header bar is OK, but posts and comments (e.g. this one I made a few minutes ago) show without the offset i.e. "posted by Pinback at 4:17 PM on October 5", instead of "posted by Pinback at 9:17 AM on October 6". Anyone else seeing this?

Problems selecting EST time zone

ascetic — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:59:33 -0800

Why can't I set my timezone to -5 (EST)? It's not an option in the drop-down menu.

Time Zone Preferences ?

southof40 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:29:06 -0800

Why are times shown on the green (apparently) somewhere in middle-east ? A new post just added at 01:07 UTC shows up as 5:07AM (apparently Dubai time ?). Is there some preferences setting I'm meant to be using ?

Zen and the Art of Scanning Cats

Stan Chin — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:26:59 -0800

So you've been planning for years to be the first person to make a post concerning scanning cats tonight. I can personally tell you, it is like joining a very prestigious and sexy VIP club. Oh the massages and seafood buffet! Don't forget though, in the spirit of friendly competition, the MeFi Server time is in a Particular Time Zone. Or else we'll laugh at you until universal heat death. Game on.

Timezone trouble

twine42 — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:26:27 -0800

I've got my timezone set to UTC but Meta thinks it's 0.25 on the 14th when it's actually 23.25 on the 13th. Is this a 2k7 date hack that's fecked the site up for all non-Americans, or has the time gone wrong for everyone?

Looks like the time zone code is broke.

intermod — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:34:59 -0800

Looks like the time zone code is broke. Everything is showing up PST for me, even though I've got Eastern set.

Timezone offsets aren't applying DST

qvantamon — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:22:18 -0800

Hey Matt, you're applying daylight saving time to timezones labeled as "UTC+-X (someplace)" in preferences...

Best Time For UK AskMe?

brautigan — Sat, 20 May 2006 21:46:50 -0800

When is the best time for a UK mefite to post in Askme for a quick response. I'd assume this would involve establishing the area/timezone the majority of me-fites are in and when they logon / read and respond. Where are you and when do all y'all "check in" or do your posting?

(And should this be an Askme question?!)

Database server clock error bungling comment sequence

Steven C. Den Beste — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:26:01 -0800

Just now in a comment I tried to include a link to a URL which contained a seven-letter word beginning with "f" that has become an epithet for those on the right side of the political spectrum. I tried to post it twice and both times when I hit "post" the screen refreshed but my post didn't show up. Is there some sort of filtration going on? Shouldn't I be told?

Time zones are funny when previewing comments on AskMe.

MeetMegan — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:09:42 -0800

Time zones are funny when previewing comments on AskMe. I have my time zone set at Central. When I use live preview, my comments appear with Pacific time. I did the cookies/logout deal, and it still does it.

Time zone fix?

intermod — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:04:53 -0800

TimezonePony .... It's that time of the year again. Instead of showing the false EST/PST/etc standard timezone stamps, can the system be tweaked to either show the correct EDT/PDT/etc, or at least ET/PT/etc? Cue snarks.

Time Zone Problem

wilful — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:12:57 -0800

Why is the time wrong, as I view it? Sitting here on the Australian east coast, it's 5:10 pm, or UTC + 10, which is how my preferences are set. So what's the Metafilter setting, where's it gone wrong?

Time Zone Problem

TonyRobots — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:07:47 -0800

Time Zone problem? My prefs are set to display the Eastern TZ, yet I'm seeing everying in PT. I think this is a recent phenomenon, though I may have just missed it before.

Time Zone Problem

about_time — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:34:12 -0800

Bug: The posts on the front page (www) all have my correct timezone. However, posts to Metatalk and Ask are all reported as PST. Can you please make them in terms of my configured timezone?

Time Zones

altolinguistic — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:46:34 -0800

Posting to bugs, but not sure if there's something I'm missing - I can set my preferences to GMT or whatever the other abbreviation is, and this shows up on the MeFi front page but not on AskMeFi and MetaTalk. Am I missing something?

Time Zones

Civil_Disobedient — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:12:15 -0800

Time-zone custom settings don't work properly for AskMe or MeTa, you California-centric bastard.

It's 12:52 am in New York.

Edible Energy — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:54:37 -0800

It's 12:52 am in New York. For Mefites in earlier time zones {GMT -6 etc} does this post show up as being made on the 11th or 10th?

Timezone bug?

quonsar — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 12:42:03 -0800

did the timezone option JUST stop working in the blue, or has it been busted for a while and i just noticed?

Standardizing timezone names

intermod — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:36:53 -0800

"EST" = "Eastern Standard Time"; "EDT" = "Eastern Daylight saving Time"; "ET" = "Eastern Time" (no standard/daylight specified -- usually obvious which it is). It's to be expected that people will make these mistakes in FPPs and comments, but could you tweak the code so it doesn't say "EST" when it really doesn't mean "EST"? Rather than trying to come up with some code algorithm, or trying to remember to make the DST change every six months, just call it ET / CT / PT / etc and be done with it. A pet peeve of mine ...

Time Zone Problem

Bugbread — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:40:16 -0800

It's currently 05:37 JST. Metafilter says it's 06:37 JST. I doublechecked, but the user configuration is correct: UTC + 9 hours. Is Mefi applying daylight savings time to Coordinated Universal Time, throwing off calculations?

Will time zone tweaking apply to Metatalk and Askme?

peacay — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:23:33 -0800

Time Zones don't appear to have been mentioned much in recent times.
And I was wondering whether migration of time zone tweaking to MeTalk and AskMeFi would still be going ahead? I get so confuzzled down here at times.

The timezone slips occasionally.

nj_subgenius — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 10:28:42 -0800

PST slippage in the blue... Occasionally my time reference on MeFi gets whacked back to PST, though my preferences are EST. When I see the problem, I edit my profile (changing nothing), submit and ta-da, EST. Don't need no pony, just bringing it up. Happens ~ once a month.

Timezone bug.

nj_subgenius — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 17:51:34 -0800

Timezone confusion; though my prefs are set for Eastern time, timestamps are coming up PST. ?

Timezone Bug

Blue Stone — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:51:44 -0800

Tried deleting cookies, logging out and in, but whilst MeFi shows my timezone as set in my preferences, MeTa is a different timezone. Frisbee... sorry... discuss.

Time Zone Issue

feelinglistless — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:22:36 -0800

The clocks went forward an hour in the UK at the weekend, so the GMT timing on posts is now an hour too early ...