Interesting clock issue at DU

[mahatmakanejeeves]

According to the clock, BumRushDaShow posted last month's BLS payroll employment report an hour before BLS released the numbers.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142822689

[Tomconroy]

1. Man. How did you ever notice that?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Loose times cause crimes.

The next release comes out tomorrow, and I was updating links to the earlier employment reports. I can send you to any employment report over the last ten years.

[Tomconroy]

3. Scary.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Isn't BumR scarier? She uses her psychic abilities to predict federal statistics

when she could be predicting lottery numbers and rake in the cash.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. I predict she'll be making another prediction any minute now. NT

[Irish_Dem]

7. So you can predict when BumR is going to make predictions.

OK people, focus. Lottery numbers.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. In 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 .... NT

[Yonnie3]

5. It was daylight time then and

I think DU handles the time change in a simple manner.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Yeah, I knew we had a late time change this year, two days after the BLS report came out.

It still seems freaky to me that DU's clock would go back and alter the times on existing posts.

There was an episode of "Monk" based on a time change, and "The Sting" is about delayed results from the track.

Thanks, and good morning.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. LOL

It's showing you the "current" clock time of what it would have been if posted today. I.e., the "view" is dynamic and not static.

The same applies when you look at someone's post count. At my post time, your post count is "40,658 posts" but if I come back later to look at this post that I'm replying to, that number will change because the post count will continue to increase as you post and not stay static.

[Yonnie3]

11. I think the DU clock is on UTC

and additions or subtractions are made according to the individual's profile selection of time zone. I'm thinking the posts have a time stamp that doesn't change, only the +/- factor changed.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Yes it is

because "the next day" on DU changes at either 8 pm ET (during EST) or 7 pm ET (during EDT). That impacts the Advanced search if you are looking for posts by someone later at night but didn't adjust your search criteria to change to "the next day" even when it's not "midnight" local time yet.

[Yonnie3]

13. That's what I also noted n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Yup!