Timestamps don't determine which day is "today" accurately

Feedback · Timestamps don't determine which day is "today" accurately (solved)

master of 1 children

For as long as I remember, chat timestamps haven't stated which day is "today" accurately for me. It is probably noticeable to me because of my time zone — I live on the east coast of Australia (UTC+10).

I just posted in Adult Main Channel, where the last post was yesterday 6am (by my clock), and the timestamps look like this:

Yesterday at 02:36 PM · (<- posted two days ago, but chat considers this "yesterday")
01:28 AM · (<- the earliest post from yesterday, apparently chat considers this "today")
(... a few dozen messages skipped ...)
06:07 AM · (<- the last message from yesterday)
Wednesday at 08:40 AM · (<- my message from today)

Really it should say something like:

Monday at 02:36 PM ·
Yesterday at 01:28 AM ·
Yesterday at 06:07 AM ·
08:40 AM ·

My best guess is it's going by server time or UTC+0 to determine what the current date is, but it should really just go by my PC clock if it's using that to display timestamps anyway!

It's a bit past 11am here now (so, past 1am UTC) and the timestamps have turned into:

Monday at 02:36 PM ·
01:28 AM ·
06:07 AM ·
Today at 08:40 AM ·

So it acknowledges today as today finally, but the labels are blank for yesterday rather than blank for today (with yesterday labelled). Unless there's some other factor there, like number of messages on either day?

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created: 14 July 15 at 10:51 PM (build: 7/4/2015 5:35 AM beta)

closed: 22 April 16 at 05:07 AM (build: 4/21/2016 7:33 PM beta)

children

Yesterdays aren't being shown in channels properly

Anne Mayer

Not that this isn't a bug, but in your settings, what is your account's timezone set to? UTC+10? I'm just curious what you would see depending on what your setting is set to.

Anne Mayer

Ha, changed mine to +10, and it shows up 'weird', but I can see what it's doing.

Yesterday at 06:07 AM · (TUE )
08:40 AM · (WED)
08:52 AM · (WED)
Thursday at 01:15 AM ·
Thursday at 04:08 AM ·
Thursday at 04:16 AM ·

The time of the last post, at 12:16 PM for US Mountain 'today', Wednesday, is truly Thursday at 4:16 AM in Eastern Australia. So US Mtn time reads correctly, but Sydney Australia won't.
It's just that the attempt to categorize today/yesterday/etc is relative to a single point on one side of the date-line.

Anne Mayer

P. S. In other words, the time and all literal days are correct for your timezone setting, regardless of setting. Where it goes astray is when trying to categorize whether the times are 'today' or 'yesterday'.

Velus

Yeah, my time zone is UTC+10 on here. Good to know you can see it too!

P. S. In other words, the time and all literal days are correct for your timezone setting, regardless of setting. Where it goes astray is when trying to categorize whether the times are 'today' or 'yesterday'.

That is exactly right.

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

I tweaked this a little bit. Is it still wonky for you two?

Velus

The testing server doesn't have any backscroll at the moment, but there's no day marks on the timestamps there (so it's just the time, no 'today' or anything which is fine).

On the live site, though, there aren't any day indicators now. The front page says that Inspiration Station had its last post "Yesterday 6:46 AM", but the message in the actual chat says juts says "06:46 AM". My post the next day also has nothing. No day marks in Main Channel either.

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

Annoyingly the move to the new server broke this again.

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