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| Not all user's times have same # of minutes; Not a problem, I'm just curious | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 25 2007, 06:47 PM (746 Views) | |
| Darzog | Mar 25 2007, 06:47 PM Post #1 |
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While looking at a user's local time in their profile I noticed that they didn't have the same time my profile did, even though we were in the same timezone, they were off by about 5 minutes. I realize that different timezones will have different hours, but all timezones should have the same number of minutes past the hour, or if in the same timezone have the exact same time. I did a little more digging and found that members were grouped into two buckets, some with minutes matching mine, some matching the other user. I did not see any correlation by member group, timezone, logged in status or anything else. It isn't based on the user's computer time, and I seriously doubt that it has any relation to the user's physical location (based on IP). I checked the Overall Top 10 poster list at this forum and noticed the same behavior:
This isn't a problem (which is why I didn't post in the Support section) I was just curious if anyone knew the reason for this. |
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| wizzy853 | Mar 25 2007, 07:39 PM Post #2 |
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You have to change it to the correct time in the profile. It's automatically set to one timezone, you have to change it to your timezone and make sure that you check the box where it asks about Daylight Savings time.
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| Christian | Mar 25 2007, 08:03 PM Post #3 |
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That's not what he's asking. He's asking why the minutes are different. Hours doesn't matter. |
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| wizzy853 | Mar 26 2007, 05:22 PM Post #4 |
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Are you sure you ment the Overall Top 10 Posters list or the Online List? |
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| Darzog | Mar 26 2007, 05:50 PM Post #5 |
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I meant the Top 10 Poster list (link). I took all of those people on the top poster list, clicked on their name to see their local time and wrote it down. As you can see, Ben, PhranK, huricane and Stephen have times ending in :03 but the rest have times ending in :57. But whether I meant the Top Ten list or the Online User list is not the point. My question is about some people being 6 minutes faster than others, where those people are listed shouldn't really matter.
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| Andrew K. | Mar 26 2007, 06:23 PM Post #6 |
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Once again I misread someone's post. :$ But hey this time I can say I only got 4 hours of sleep. - _ - |
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| Christian | Mar 26 2007, 06:43 PM Post #7 |
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Not really, the similarity in times and the re-occurance of them can't be the last activity. Edit: I just had a look, it IS local time, and they ARE off by some amount of hours and 6 minutes. |
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| Pete B | Mar 27 2007, 11:56 AM Post #8 |
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Well they are timezones that include changes in minutes, but not like this. Its a bug? |
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