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Subject: 
Posts disappearing when posted 'in the future'?
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Date: 
Sun, 3 Sep 2006 15:55:05 GMT
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My computer clock is almost always wrong when I start the computer. If it's
some days ahead and I forget to correct it before posting to lugnet, it
seems my posts just disappear (or will they magically display when the date
finally arrives?). I can't find any difference when doing email or web
authorization.

A copy of this post, http://news.lugnet.com/loc/se/?n=2935 was made earlier
today, but with my computer clock at Thursday next week, and is hasn't
appeared yet. The visible post was made later, but with a correct computer
clock.

I really don't think the local time stamp of a post should have any
significance for the publishing of it, but it seems that's the case.

--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
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  Re: Posts disappearing when posted 'in the future'?
 
(...) Hi Anders, AFAIK if your computer's hardware clock itself is inaccurate by large amounts, it *could* damage or omit the time stamp in your message, but normally it's replaced by the news server with the GMT time. In our case depending on what (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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