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Thread: Overzealous spam filter and incorrect clock
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scuffleball
Shipmate
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Some words (like "I" and "ready") seem to be being censored out and replaced with stars (is this [the Scunthorpe problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem) ?)
Also depending on how I go into ecclesiastes either the clock is wrong or lots of recent posts have been deleted. [If I go in from the main page](http://forum.ship-of-fools.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=6) I can see recent posts but [if I go in from a post](http://forum.ship-of-fools.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=70) I can only see old posts
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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Well, if you are reading posts from between 18th September and 20th September, you maybe seeing the imprint of H&A day - there's a thread elsewhere in styx on it.
Dunno about deletions though. Something to do with threads being moved, or the clocks going back myabe ?
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Adam.
Like as the
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The second URL you give (f=70) is for Oblivion, the 'retirement home' for old threads. There should never be new posts there!
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
# 31
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The clocks in the UK went back an hour over the weekend, with the end of British Summer Time. The clocks in the US don't change for another week or so. Because the software follows the US clocks, until the US clocks change the displayed time for people in the UK will be an hour out. You have two options:
1. Leave things as they are and live with the displayed time being wrong for the next week or so
2. Edit you profile to change the clock offset. Which will put the clock right, but you'll need to do it again when the US clocks change.
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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the software follows the US clocks
I thought this was a British website! Is outrage!
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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Option 3: reconquer the US.
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marzipan
Shipmate
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And there was me thinking the time was wrong last week, that must be my own computer being odd again
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W Hyatt
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Because the software follows the US clocks, until the US clocks change the displayed time for people in the UK will be an hour out.
I am in the US and I see a similar problem (the displayed times are now an hour behind actual time). I assumed it was because the servers were in the UK, but now I can't figure out what is causing it. Am I missing something?
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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I think what it boils down to is that the software that runs the boards is about 150 years old and gets confused whenever the clocks change anywhere in the world.
It'll all settle down in a week or so and then in March it'll happen all over again and a similar thread will be started here in The Styx.
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Piglet
Islander
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Count yourselves lucky: Newfoundland is one of the "half-hour" time-zones, which doesn't seem to be legislated for when setting up your profile, so my Ship time is always half an hour out.
As the saying here goes:
The end of the world is nigh! (and half an hour later in Newfoundland) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by W Hyatt:
quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
Because the software follows the US clocks, until the US clocks change the displayed time for people in the UK will be an hour out.
I am in the US and I see a similar problem (the displayed times are now an hour behind actual time). I assumed it was because the servers were in the UK, but now I can't figure out what is causing it. Am I missing something?
As far as timezones are concerned I think our servers are on the Azores.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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Twice a year I just ignore the clocks for a bit. For a while, I'm 1 hour out (which I was after Australia changed to summer time). Now that it's 2 hours out I know that it'll be stable for many months, so it's worth my while making the time adjustment.
That's one of the ironies of daylight savings being so prevalent. Officially my time zone is 10 hours ahead of GMT, but in practice I'm almost always either 9 hours or 11 hours ahead of the UK, depending on whose summer it is.
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
I think what it boils down to is that the software that runs the boards is about 150 years old and gets confused whenever the clocks change anywhere in the world.
It'll all settle down in a week or so and then in March it'll happen all over again and a similar thread will be started here in The Styx.
Clearly, we need the Long Now Foundation's 10,000 year clock.
![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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For the first time in ages, the Ship's clock shows the right time for me.
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