timeclock might be batty

[Adrian]

Greetings Nate!

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Why the forum insist that my last visit was 04 July 2002? is anyone else getting this too? The last few times I came here the little folders have all been yellow instead of purple. I guess it makes sense that they're all old considering they were three months old last time I was here. weird.   taaa!!!

-Nate

Do you have any idea how BORING immortality can get?! -Defalco

Everyone will be seeing this - including me - in fact you might even find it is 4 August now

This is nothing to do with the server time - that is as accurate as it is possible to be, being synchronised hourly with the official atomic clock - it is *extremely* accurate. You will no doubt have noticed that all other times, e.g. posting times are correct.

The problem is cookies. I have no idea precisely what the problem is yet however. All I know is that the reference date is on the 4th of each month, and it is advancing a month or so every couple of days. My guess is that by the end of the week it will have cycled through all future months, and arrive back in April again - probably the 4th.

I will of course continue to look into this one.

With best regards,

Adrian.

[Joe]

Guys - just noticed this myself and was about to post it separately (thanks God I looked to see there was already a thread on it this time).

That page seems to be reversing the day and month between universal and US formats. ie, it's now 04 October (04/10/02 in US) when the std format would be 10/04/02, which is why it's slowly incrementing the month as you go - just the date component moving forward.

Nothing major; small fix. However, once we get past the 12th of April, any affected ASPs might throw an exception when interpreting that date.

Edited by - joe on 10 April 2002  13:27:57

[Adrian]

Greetings Joe!

quote:
Guys - just noticed this myself and was about to post it separately (thanks God I looked to see there was already a thread on it this time).

That page seems to be reversing the day and month between universal and US formats. ie, it's now 04 October (04/10/02 in US) when the std format would be 10/04/02, which is why it's slowly incrementing the month as you go - just the date component moving forward.

Nothing major; small fix. However, once we get past the 12th of April, any affected ASPs might throw an exception when interpreting that date.

Edited by - joe on 10 April 2002  13:27:57

I am sure this is largely the problem. It is saying 4th October today.

What I can't understand is why it has only just started to occur when the forum code is the same in that respect. Previous months have been fine as well.

I will look into it anyway - I like things to be 100%

With best regards,

Adrian.

[Adrian]

Greetings Everyone!

OK - I think this problem is fixed now - this function has about 30 lines of code associated with it, so only time will tell that the problem is solved.

Please let me know if you see anymore problems from this date thing.

With best regards to all,

Adrian.

[Nate]

Why the forum insist that my last visit was 04 July 2002? is anyone else getting this too? The last few times I came here the little folders have all been yellow instead of purple. I guess it makes sense that they're all old considering they were three months old last time I was here. weird.   taaa!!!

-Nate

Do you have any idea how BORING immortality can get?! -Defalco