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Why Is My Time Different?

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Okay, well the normal answer to this question is: you have to set your time zone in your profile. Mine is GMT - 6. But just to make sure, I just checked my profile and it's set correctly. I also posted a test post in another thread just to make sure I wasn't crazy.

So here's my question, with a little background. Ever since the "spring forward" time change, my browser has always showed the time here to be an hour off (behind I think?). I just ignored it because it wasn't a big deal, and I figured it would revert when the time changed again anyway. But for the last couple of months, for some unknown reason, it's been 12 hours behind. When I posted my test post, it was Friday sept 19 11:00 am where I am, but when it showed up on the thread, it said Thursday sept 18 10:56 pm. This can get quite confusing when I log in to check new messages and then have to log back out before I've read them all, because when I come back the second time, the little orange new message things have gone away, and I have to look for post dates/times.

Anyway, it's not that much of a bother. And Vain, if I'm the only one having this problem then don't you worry yourself about it. I just wondered if anyone else was experiencing this, or happened to know how to fix it. :screwy:
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Oh yeah: Yaarrrr ye scurvy devil machine!! Ye'll be the first ever keel-hauled computer when I get done with ye!
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I think there IS at least one other person having a similar problem...but I can't rememebr who it was, just that he or she mentioned it in a thread somewhere... :(
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Arizona doesn't change which screws me up on MST...then again u DO live in Texas! :D :lol:
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I'm on GMT, and I have to set the time to GMT+12... Don't fret about it *shrug*
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Post by duchess of malfi »

The Arizona thing has reminded me -- I think it might have been Caamora who also has this sort of problem with her time... :?
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Aaarrrgh, I wish I could help ya' matey. But shiver me timbers, ye got a way with the words that can only be on account o' bein' the reincarnation of a man-killin', woman-stealin', baby-smackin', lice-ridden pirate of old!! Ya do me heart proud!!
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But why does the time change occasionally?
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Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon

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Post by birdandbear »

Hmmm.....You too? :? I tried setting my time zone 12 hours ahead and that did the trick. But just a couple of days ago it shifted back all by itself....and so when I set my time zone back to where it should be, now everything's right again. :?

My bwain hurts. ;)
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What is GMT, btw?
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Greenwich Mean Time (starts at a longitudinal line from the north pole through Greenwich to the South Pole), or Zulu Time. It's kind of the standard... right now I think it's Eastern Standard +4 hours.
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Post by Forestal »

GMT - grenwich mean time, basically english time...

your time thing could b that your computer's battery has gone... when u turn ur computer off and ur battery is gone, ur time screws up...

but i'm no expert...
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Anyone else notice that today's posts, like all those hacked posts of yore, are dated Wed Dec 31? Kind of threw me for a loop until I noticed the year was different.... :oops: :lol:
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Bozo...!~ :mrgreen:
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