I wonder if it is to do with posters local timezones being sequenced in order as with the sites, so if you are running a timezone say -1 hrs from the sites, you appear in front of a post that was done on the sites time.


Confused, you should be... :8


Edit:-

Forget that, site says I posted this @ 15:27 and in UK it is 23:41

I suspect that one of their servers has reverted to or has been set to PST which is UTC -8hrs

When I tried to search it told me my token had expired.

Where do you buy a new token? the same place you get a TV licence?

Yeah, the forum has had another brainfart. Read http://www.pprune.org/computer-inter...amp-fairy.html for any info that might appear.

29100 seconds = 8 hrs~ish, the time difference between PST and UTC. See the time stamp fairy thread below.

Either that or a process on the forum has set a number of people's profiles to PST from UTC/GMT?

Or above - as it is on my screen at the moment.

Funny, all of the posts here are showing PST. What the hell is going on... er... wait..... I'm on PST.....

..... nevermind

Test post at 1805Z

Thinks - has a turkey made it out of the pen?

The problem seems to be multiplying! :E

http://www.designwithvinyl.com/produ...0496_thumb.jpg

I know, happening it is, all over the site, I thought I would reply, but I might as well pre empt you... :8

It can't happen, impossible with all the safeguards!
 

I am sure the webmaster and the techies are going to say " it can't be, not possible with all our fail safe systems, yada, yada, yada " just like the Airbus development engineers and pilots.

Perhaps some posts are done with superluminal neutrinos!

After an excellent landing etc...

I don't buy that. I think this audience is so diverse that not everyone uses the exact same browser on the exact same type of computer.

I will believe that there are multiple servers handling the data, and that one of them is using the wrong time zone conversion.

On a Jetblast thread, (Where in the World?) I posted once, then a few minutes later posted again, but it reset the latter time to four hours earlier, bumping it up.

It's confusing to read comments on something that hasn't been posted yet. :confused: :confused: :confused:

I'm posting this at 1945 EST [0045Z] just to see what happens. It should be Post #7.

That is roughly an eight hour delay - about the same as London-Los Angeles? Could the forum be running to West Coast time?

post 9 in Dubai its 9am
 

I have made several posts this morning, and used the sequence header as above.

All posts have been sequenced correctly, but this might be because there have been no recent posts withing the CA time zone -wherever time zone.

More importantl is is the smell cheker option...needed please....

Dawler: your timing stamp shows: 26th 05h18....

glf

The token has expired? What the stuff does that mean?
 

This is a new one on me!
I try to submit a reply to a forum subject within less than a minute after reading it and this message appears.

I am also getting some funny "You last visited" times.

posted 1548

It is still playing up.
Posted at 09:16, shows post as # 3720
Posted a reply to a comment on my post a couple of hours later.
It shows as posted at 03:19 and as post # 3719. :ugh:
Correct time shown for this post.

I'm eagerly awaiting the crippled aviation comparison between the vBulletin PPRUNE software and something that's barely airborne.
I knew there were a few bugs in the vBulletin forum program in general, but I was under the impression that newer versions sorted out the bugs.
Perhaps the newer versions of vBulletin are only compounding error problems in the program, instead of eliminating them?
One thing is for sure. No other forum would offer a test of reliability and stability as PRRUNE does, with its humungous number of forum users at any one time.
I'm simply surprised that the program doesn't break down more often.

I don't think it's got anything to do with the vBulletin forum program, it's most likely to be a clock setting in one of the servers, which as I said in post #42 is set to PST.

I suspect it is rather more complex than just a time setting on a webserver.

Possibly something to do with management of session state over hardware load balancers, web servers and database server.

SD

Mmm...better ask Homunculus about that guy.


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Oh, FF's sake, this means nothing here. It's supposed to be after Slasher's post.

No, using the Reply in the post box didn't work.


Mmm...better ask Homunculus about that guy.


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Oh, FF's sake, this means nothing here. It's supposed to be after Slasher's post.

- aka SNAFU:D. Basically what I said to Mrs B this morning over breakfast. She said she thought it was more likely that the server does not use burst/shared ram through multiple machines, as well as individual CPU cores, so we agreed to differ and did the washing up.:confused:

Thread disappears Friday 25Nov
 

Just to log a thread-disappear:

On Friday morning, in the Tech' forum, there was a thread asking about PAINT on large aircraft. At about 18z, I added two links to Boeing's _Aero_ e-zine (discussing "coatings") -- which should have been about the THIRD slot. INSTEAD, it appeared as the TOP slot (with an erroneous time-stamp). Naturally, when I attempted to relocate that message to the lower (later) position, THE WHOLE THREAD DISAPPEARED.

Sorry -- to the man looking for data on aircraft coatings.

[And now this message was initially returned with the diagnostic about a time-stamp: here's a second attempt to "submit reply".]

Timestamp Embuggerance Fairy -

The TEF is a troll-like creature who pervades
PPRuNe and causes the chronological mix up
of posts.


http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...WlQwe2N97dynyl


He's also an ugly little !!!!.

Poster 0.44 GMT 27Nov
 

This is not the only aviation site that has problems after (upgrade):{
Perhaps leaving things that work alone is a thought.
To meany dam rabbits as well

There has been no upgrade.
Being Thanksgiving , no changes were being made and sadly no support till Monday.

I'm glad someone else is having the same problem as it's driving me bonkers.

Perhaps it's time prune upgraded to v4 of vbulletin ;)

Apparently IB were going to do so, but realised it was even more bug-ridden than this version.

I kid you not.

SD

I have seen the same problem. In the end I had to exit the site and re-enter in order to post.
Rather annoying !

Perhaps if the advertisers were to say "Fix it or we f*** off", the 'west coast dudes' might, like, fix it, man.....

Advertisers? This site has adverts? They're well hidden mate!!

The fault's intermittent, but looks like it's fixed now.

Hang on, no it's not.

It is just past 0900 Monday morning here in sunny Southern California and these guys are just coming back to work. Maybe it will get sorted out shortly.

Allegedly it was fixed yesterday.

SD

This should be post #80. Following Saab's post copied above.