magic9mushroom
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So, you know how the forum lists posts as being "X minutes ago", then "Today at X", then "Yesterday at X", then "[day of the week] at X" for the past week, then by date?
Well, the "[day of the week] at X" stage is fucked up at the moment. Specifically, it's calculating the day of the week by GMT, not by the time according to the user's time and date settings. This won't show up much if you're in Europe or the eastern USA, but I'm currently at GMT +11, so nearly half the timestamps are translated wrongly.
To give an example, I'm looking through Cambrian's posts (newest first). Here are a selection of the timestamps listed:
Sunday at 2:25 AM
Sunday at 2:23 PM
Sunday at 2:07 PM
Sunday at 11:32 AM
Sunday at 11:09 AM
Saturday at 10:59 AM
This is the correct chronological order of those posts; the first and last posts are simply mislabelled by splicing together the day from GMT with the time from my timezone (the most recent one really happened on "Sunday at 3:25 PM" by GMT/"Monday at 2:25 AM" by my time; the oldest one happened on "Saturday at 11:59 PM" by GMT/"Sunday at 10:59 AM" by my time, ten minutes before the second-oldest).
A weird thing I've noticed about this is that when I load a page, the correct (for me) days of the week come up for a split-second before being replaced with the wrong ones.
EDIT: Tested by sticking my timezone from Sydney/Melbourne (GMT +10, Southern Hemisphere DST) to Brisbane (GMT +10, no DST); issue didn't go away. So it doesn't seem to be from the Southern Hemisphere recently entering DST.
Well, the "[day of the week] at X" stage is fucked up at the moment. Specifically, it's calculating the day of the week by GMT, not by the time according to the user's time and date settings. This won't show up much if you're in Europe or the eastern USA, but I'm currently at GMT +11, so nearly half the timestamps are translated wrongly.
To give an example, I'm looking through Cambrian's posts (newest first). Here are a selection of the timestamps listed:
Sunday at 2:25 AM
Sunday at 2:23 PM
Sunday at 2:07 PM
Sunday at 11:32 AM
Sunday at 11:09 AM
Saturday at 10:59 AM
This is the correct chronological order of those posts; the first and last posts are simply mislabelled by splicing together the day from GMT with the time from my timezone (the most recent one really happened on "Sunday at 3:25 PM" by GMT/"Monday at 2:25 AM" by my time; the oldest one happened on "Saturday at 11:59 PM" by GMT/"Sunday at 10:59 AM" by my time, ten minutes before the second-oldest).
A weird thing I've noticed about this is that when I load a page, the correct (for me) days of the week come up for a split-second before being replaced with the wrong ones.
EDIT: Tested by sticking my timezone from Sydney/Melbourne (GMT +10, Southern Hemisphere DST) to Brisbane (GMT +10, no DST); issue didn't go away. So it doesn't seem to be from the Southern Hemisphere recently entering DST.
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