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The 19th of February arrives early!

pnf — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:23:15 GMT

Just noticed this on the Forum.

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Oldjim — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:27:47 GMT

Deleted - spotted it

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Santiago — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:30:42 GMT

Does that mean we are running on off peak now?

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pnf — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:47:14 GMT

I suppose that would depend on what time it is in the new portal!

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Santiago — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:54:19 GMT

No, I just checked on VMBU and it says it is still 18 Feb,

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pnf — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:09:42 GMT

Additional information that may help (although it's too late to check this out just now as it really is the 19th February):
It was just the Forums section that was incorrect, the Home, Blogs and Polls sections all reported the correct date.

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pierre_pierre — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:12:30 GMT

this has been reported many times before, we even celebrated New Year twice
That piece of Software is on either BST (British Summer Time) or EST (European Standard Time) when it should be on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) or UST (Universal Standard Time) Never mind come 29 March it might then be on the correct local time

Re: The 19th of February arrives early!

Colin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:42:56 GMT

Hmmm.... that's interesting... I've never spotted that before, and I could swear it's the same bit of code in both headers.
One to check in the morning methinks.

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Santiago — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:51:02 GMT

Now which morning would that be Colin?

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Colin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:55:54 GMT

That'll be Friday the 20th... which is apparently today here and tomorrow on the homepage.
I really am confused about this one...

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Colin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:51:15 GMT

Ah ha, I see the cause... and it explains a lot 🙂

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Strat — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:53:34 GMT

One of the Hamsters died

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Colin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:25:46 GMT

Not quite, found a hidden database entry in the SMF database that was obviously set to GMT-1 when the forums were installed back in April 2007, which will need to be corrected. I've raised an internal problem to get this dealt with, but it may mean that existing post times are a bit wrong when it's fixed properly.

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pierre_pierre — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:31:28 GMT

I would suggest that the change is made on March 29th as we normally (in the past) had a lot of flack and had to change our individual Profiles

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jelv — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:33:41 GMT

Good suggestion - everybody is used to the times on posts going a little screwy when the clocks change.

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Colin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:36:23 GMT

You shouldn't have had to change your profiles manually... doing that will just have meant your profiles were wrong as we just changed the global setting. Changing it on the 29th March also isn't possible as it's a Sunday.

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jelv — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:42:25 GMT

Surely a safe script could be written which just requires running by whoever is in CSC that night? Or this a coded way of saying that between now and the end of March Plusnet is going to stop manning CSC on Sunday nights?

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Lurker — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:46:21 GMT

It would save money... and if you are on an 18mth lock-in...

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pierre_pierre — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:57:54 GMT

the change from GMT to BST and the other way round is always on a Sunday morning at 0200 hrs, the last one in March and October

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Colin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:52:35 GMT

Hopefully fixed... will find out in about 9hrs. Now to just hope the clock change works as I don't fancy having to try and tweak things on an iPhone.