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Time-Traveling Post
06-10-2018, 11:10 AM
I found something weird seems to have happened in one thread (A teaser from chapter two...) of the Heart of Steel forum: a comment I posted, according to the thread, at 11:41 PM on 08-01-2017 is quoted by Bob in his post of 03:42 PM on 08-01-2017. So it seems Bob responded to my post eight hours before I made it. Also, posts #7 & 8, 9 & 10, and 11 & 12 are double-posts, with 11 & 12 being the time-travelers (or is it precognition?).
I haven't so far seen anything like this in other threads, and I also don't know if it's somehow only showing up on my computer. I tried a simple restart, and that didn't change anything.
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RE: Time-Traveling Post
06-10-2018, 09:02 PM
likelyhood, at least in my brain is that instead of translating to local time from UTC their system is just posting whatever the local time is to the poster making the comment
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RE: Time-Traveling Post
06-11-2018, 05:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-11-2018, 05:56 AM by DHBirr.)
Bob and I are in the same time zone: Eastern. He's in New Jersey; I'm in Michigan.
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RE: Time-Traveling Post
06-11-2018, 07:11 AM
August 2017 was right in the middle of the great board migration, IIRC. While the whole transfer process did preserve the original date and time stamping of posts, it's possible something got munged up somewhere in this case.
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RE: Time-Traveling Post
06-11-2018, 07:41 AM
Is it possible that the posts were made on both boards? I recall that there were a few double-posts, one here and one on the old forum.
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RE: Time-Traveling Post
06-11-2018, 12:00 PM
Oh, yeah. That's definitely a possibility.
... and I just ran over there and checked. The post over there is timestamped 4:41 pm, not 11:41 pm, and my response is 8:42 am, not 3:42 pm. I think we're looking at some kind of artifact of the scrape, as I suggested; something tweaked the post times by 7 hours.
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RE: Time-Traveling Post
06-15-2018, 12:23 AM
Possibly it's relevant that during summer, I live in a UTC-7 area. As usual,
everything is my fault. This is actually fixable, except perhaps at the edge times.
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