Greenwich Mean Time.

Leopard

Despite the prominent warning posted on the banner of this forum itself last Friday that British Summer Time would end this weekend, the system clock on the entire site appears still appears to be using it.

Does it run on Ballmerware? :doh:

torbrex

All times are GMT. The time now is 7:34 PM.

That was the time given when I opened this thread and I cant see any problem.

RobTang

The guest account is still set to BST, if you log out you'll get gmt+1.

of course you can set the timezone to be whatever you want really.

Leopard

RobTang wrote: »

The guest account is still set to BST, if you log out you'll get gmt+1.

Thanks for pointing out that anomaly: sign in and everything now goes back an hour to GMT, sign out and you're back on Summer Time. :rolleyes:

Yep; that sounds like another Microsoft triumph - in belated response to Apple's OS 10.5 "Time Machine" utility, Windows 7 incorporates a log-in time-warp feature. :wall:

Money_Grabber13579

Leopard wrote: »

Thanks for pointing out that anomaly: sign in and everything now goes back an hour to GMT, sign out and you're back on Summer Time. :rolleyes:

Yep; that sounds like another Microsoft triumph - in belated response to Apple's OS 10.5 "Time Machine" utility, Windows 7 incorporates a log-in time-warp feature. :wall:

I don't know why you're so confident that it's caused by Microsoft. My Windows 7 (and all other computers) went back an hour at 2.00 on the dot.

timbim_2

That anomaly will be caused by vBulletin. The servers, windows or linux, will have changed their time as with all system clocks.

Leopard

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

I don't know why you're so confident that it's caused by Microsoft. My Windows 7 (and all other computers) went back an hour at 2.00 on the dot.

It was something called a "joke", to decipher which you need a plug-in module called a "sense of humour". Be careful how you install it, however, or you could wind up like Steve Ballmer.

BillScarab

Leopard wrote: »

It was something called a "joke", to decipher which you need a plug-in module called a "sense of humour". Be careful how you install it, however, or you could wind up like Steve Ballmer.

It's normally easier for the "sense of humour" to decipher a "joke" if it's actually funny in the first place though.

Leopard

BillScarab wrote: »

It's normally easier for the "sense of humour" to decipher a "joke" if it's actually funny in the first place though.

Although one could arrive by majority verdict at a general consensus of what is funny, more or less by definition whether or not something is funny depends upon the sense of humour possessed (or not) by the person(s) confronted with it.

Nor is the general consensus of humour within any given community or society necessarily shared by others elsewhere on the planet. (As Baron Sasha Cohen delighted in demonstrating with "Borat" and as would no doubt be observed at any private gathering of the BNP.)

Even within a general consensus, it remains an individual reaction. One of our neighbours (whom I dislike intensely because of it) roars with laughter whenever he is told of somebody else's tragedy or misfortune.

And although I imagine Steve Ballmer thinks he's "funny", I suspect he is personally unaware of the sense in which he is generally perceived to be so.

To revert to the topic of the thread, however, if my ten-year-old watch can (and did) adjust the position of its hands automatically at precisely 2:00 am in order to display GMT instead of BST, I don't see why this site can't get it right - nor that its failure to do so projects any perception of competence within the persons running it.

To paraphrase Apple's comment at the time of the Microsoft Millenium panic, "We may not get everything right but at least we knew the century was going to end", I don't expect MSE's IT staff to get everything right but it doesn't seem outrageous to expect them to know that Summer Time was going to end. Not least because, two days before it was due to occur, somebody pointed it out in the banner headline on every page, next to the picture of :A Martin Lewis :A (whom, to judge by his own standards of excellence, I am sure was as unimpressed by this ineptitude, perpetrated in his name, as I).

John_Gray

The length of the preceding post reminds me of that well-known quotation, "the lady doth protest too much, methinks." (Hamlet, Act 3, scene 2, 221)

Or, in the case of Leopard, replace 'lady' by 'laddie'... :rotfl:

Leopard

John_Gray wrote: »

The length of the preceding post reminds me of that well-known quotation, "the lady doth protest too much, methinks." (Hamlet, Act 3, scene 2, 221)

Or, in the case of Leopard, replace 'lady' by 'laddie'... :rotfl:

As previously observed, your own concept of humour may not necessarily be shared universally.

And I suspect, from the prevailing level of education manifested in postings to this sub-forum, that the aphorism you quote will not be as well known among the readership of it as you hope. :huh:

It is, however, at the continuing dysfunctionality of this site's clock rather than that of its subscribers and Steve Ballmer that I protest.



(PS. Given the passionately overwhelming love and affection in which I am held, here :rotfl: isn't taking swipes at me rather a cheap way to boost your tally of "Thanks"? :grouphug: :kisses: )