Anthony I will tell them to type faster for you at that VB forum so you can read quicker ;) 75% of the forums I visit are VB and I have never had that problem you speak of so it might be forum related as I always use the "Show new posts" button.

Daniel;

A possibly related "infuriation", maybe totally unrelated but in any event it bugs the hell out of me 'cause I can't figure it out . . .

Where do Posts pick up their TIME from? My time, your time, Sidereal time, UTC, Internet Time, Swatch Time or just any-'ol-damned-time?

I've noted people who I know are in the same Time Zone as me, post AFTER me but have a time that says they posted BEFORE me!!??

Please, before I lose what little hair I have left from scratching so hard & often. (NO, I don't have fleas)!


MIKE

does that mean you visit three more sites. :-) It's not a matter of typing faster. What happens is that the "new post" get refreshed too fast, so if something distracts you (like work) for a short time you miss all the unread posts in all forums, not just the forum you are reading. Daniel has one cookie per forum, so visiting the Pronto forum does not affect what you read in the Intermission forum. But there I feal I need to read all interesting forums in one shot, or risk missing what I have / have not seen

Time is server time (Eastern, GMT+5). But one of the servers seems to keep straying... as of right now it's running 15 minutes behind, last week it was 5 minutes fast... don't ask me, I don't run the machines. :-)

Anthony: I think they do that because there is a maximum cookie file size and maximum number of cookies per site... so some users of the software, with dozens and dozens of forums, would exceed that limit. Thus they just keep one counter. The forum here uses only one cookie, but 'last visit' data is kept separate for each and every forum.

Is the time shown on a post the time that the Thread was opened, or the time that the reply is posted?

I know, I know . . . I'm obsessing!

On the index? The time the last reply was made. In a thread? The time the reply was made.

OK . . . thanks for the personal attention, Daniel.

Now I guess I can go to sleep, I just hope I set my alarm clock to the right time!    

Right now, the previous reply is first listed in the forum (with a time of 02:50). However, the second in the forum list is showing a later time of 02:55.

How in the heck did Daniel's last post end up being almost 11 minutes later than Mike's post, which was a reply to Daniel's last post?

Look at the times.

Dan's post: 3:01 am

Mike's post: 2:50 am


Still scratching my head on that one,

JJP

Daniel just explained that above. One server is currently 15 minutes different than the other.

John: the real answer is the time/space continuum is breaking apart

It's a result of all the worms eaten from bottles of tequila. They are actually Alien implants of miniature Worm Holes whose exponentially increasing ingestion is creating a cumulative conglomeration of the strength of these miniature Worm Holes, thus altering time as you feeble Humans understand it!

I oughta know ! ! !

Mwah-ha-ha-ha-haaaaa!

MIKE

Don't know if you're still reading this thread, Daniel, but is this a UNIX system and is it core dumping? If so, there's a parameter which will stop that happening. Can't remember it off the top of my head, but no dount someone out there can. Wouldn't stop the crashes, but it would stop it filling the disk space.

BTW, I MUCH prefer this software to vBulletin, but the addition of "new since your last visit" would be a useful addition.

Eastern is GMT-5 isn't it? :)