Nothing to see here!

Jun 17, 2010 10:09

Just checking the timestamp for a friend. Here you go, debris_k.

Leave a comment

debris_k June 17 2010, 14:23:25 UTC
Huh.

I'm gonna use my crystal ball and after consulting with the spirits declare that your own time is 10 am.

(As it says on your entry. Geez, you'd think lj would have a system smarter than this. *headdesk*)

Reply

iadorespike June 17 2010, 14:44:07 UTC
Yeah, and it was exactly 10:09 A.M. when I posted. So.

Sorry it didn't really help, sweetie. *hugs*

Reply

debris_k June 17 2010, 14:52:40 UTC
It did help, in a way - now I know it *is* a purely lj-made glitch, and not up to lj clients or whatever. It sucks since I can't do anything about it, but it does clear things up a bit.

Thank you for indulging me and my experiments! *hugs back hard*

Reply

iadorespike June 17 2010, 14:55:22 UTC
You're totally welcome. At least you know now.

*snuggles you*

Reply

debris_k June 17 2010, 14:54:22 UTC
What's weird is that the comments' timestamps are fine - it keeps saying (local) though the time is translated into my own timezone. It's like lj was not even trying to have them be correct but succeeded, and with the post, well, who knows. :-/

Reply

iadorespike June 17 2010, 14:56:25 UTC
Yes, I've noticed that too...the comment timestamps are always in my own timezone. It really is kind of weird. :/

Reply

lavvyan June 17 2010, 15:14:05 UTC
Butting in because I know it'll drive you insane: my own comment timestamps are always UTC, though I'm UTC+2. Confused yet? *g*

Reply

iadorespike June 17 2010, 17:53:48 UTC
Hi, you!!!

*clings to you*

P.S. The vagaries of LJ's coding will never, I'm afraid, be understood. :/

Reply

debris_k June 17 2010, 19:19:21 UTC
Are you sure your time zone is set properly? (It's somewhere in the bowels of lj's settings, hecked if I remember under what heading, sorry.) I was sometimes off by an hour on other sites due to the summer/winter time switcheroos, but lj was usually fine.

You could try and set your time zone an hour or two off deliberately to compensate, and see what happens? I'm of a tinkering mindset - if I had your journal, I'd already be changing three different things at the same time to see what happens. :-D

Reply

electricalgwen June 17 2010, 23:35:38 UTC
Hmm. I should check this out - LJ has never recovered from me moving continents. My own computer has trouble, actually, which is weird considering I bought it here.

Reply

debris_k June 18 2010, 10:57:53 UTC
Re: your comp, if you have stuff set to a country or zone or language, even - even if it's not specifically a time-related setting, some programs can go wonky and try and fix the default to what *they* feel is the right time or timezone. And stuff like that.

Let's not go into how I had to convince my computer I WANTED TO USE US ENGLISH AS A DEFAULT, YES, STOP WITH THE RANDOM LOCAL LANGUAGES ALREADY but use a different - not US - timezone, and NOT have all the programs that had multi-language packs default to a random local language rather than good old English. I still occasionally have to glare a program into submission, but at least I don't get so many things trying to tell me stuff in Russian anymore. (Which was extra entertaining since I believe the UK is about the same distance from here as Russia these days, so why not default to the Queen's British??)

Reply


Leave a comment

Up