Ship of Fools: Overzealous spam filter and incorrect clock

Thread: Overzealous spam filter and incorrect clock Board: Oblivion / Ship of Fools.

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Posted by scuffleball (# 16480) on :

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

Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :

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 ?

Posted by Adam. (# 4991) on :

The second URL you give (f=70) is for Oblivion, the 'retirement home' for old threads. There should never be new posts there!

Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :

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.

Posted by Robert Armin (# 182) on :

quote:
the software follows the US clocks

I thought this was a British website! Is outrage!

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

Option 3: reconquer the US.

Posted by marzipan (# 9442) on :

And there was me thinking the time was wrong last week, that must be my own computer being odd again

Posted by W Hyatt (# 14250) on :

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?

Posted by Spike (# 36) on :

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.

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

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]

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

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.

Posted by orfeo (# 13878) on :

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.

Posted by Golden Key (# 1468) on :

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]

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

For the first time in ages, the Ship's clock shows the right time for me.

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