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Re: Posts disappearing when posted 'in the future'?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 4 Sep 2006 13:27:54 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Anders Isaksson wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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
Jerry was drumming into our baby. Probably he will read this and can help you
better, maybe he already wrote you, otherwise you can send him a note to
jerry @ L U G N E T.com
But in general, I'd just ask you to eliminate the source of error ;-)
Leg Godt!
Rene
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