Something's up with the forum clock....

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The circled post appeared sometime 4 A.M. (Don't ask me why I was up then), and has appeared under every post except for another rephrased post made by Onikaze.


:irked: What happen?


EDIT: How did franz post an hour and a half into the future?
 
It seems to be just the posts that were made at a certain time. Posts that are made now appear to have no issues, it's just ones that were made shortly after the server move. It looks it was 12 hours ahead to me.
 
It's actually pretty simple - when I took delivery of the new server, I forgot to set the clock to the proper time (it was 12 hours ahead). When I opened the forum, people started posting messages, which were the incorrectly labeled as being posted 12 hours in the future. After about 30 minutes, someone pointed out the error, and I corrected the clock by moving it back 12 hours. All posts made after that were then labeled with the correct time, but those posts made within that 30-minute window still had the incorrect time label. Logically, as the software pulls the posts out of the database and sorts them for chronological display, it's putting new posts behind/above the "older" posts.

Now that we have caught up to the incorrect time, new posts should be inserted below the "old" posts as would be expected, and this should no longer be an issue. My apologies for the oversight - sometimes it can be difficult to see the trees for the forest when dealing with a large project. :)
 
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