Timestamps and bugs and issues, oh my.

December 14, 2005 12:20 PM

Last month, there was this bug about posts from yesterday being timestamped as "this morning" in My Comments. The same thing is happening in My Posts. It is confusing.
posted by smackfu to Bugs at 12:20 PM (4 comments total)

do you have the timezone set correctly?
posted by andrew cooke at 1:25 PM on December 14, 2005

Comments in Ask Me don't believe in time zones, AFAICT.

It is currently 2:46 PM PST on Dec 14th. The post I'm looking at is timestamped 3:46 PM PST on Dec 13th. This is not "this morning", by any stretch.

OTOH, it does sound exactly like what Matt wrote in the other bug: "greater than 12 hours but less than 1 day old stuff was labeled "this morning" as a way to guess at the time of a comment"
posted by smackfu at 2:48 PM on December 14, 2005

smackfu: " Last month, there was this bug about posts from yesterday being timestamped as "this morning" in My Comments. The same thing is happening in My Posts. It is confusing."

You're right, that is confusing. I had to read the bug report three times to figure out if it was happening now, or was happening this morning, or last month, or yesterday.
posted by Plutor at 3:39 AM on December 15, 2005

Yes, it makes no sense to anyone else.

New version: this bug was fixed for My Comments but it still broken for My Posts.
posted by smackfu at 10:27 AM on December 15, 2005