Post in Day and Time Stamp of postings

2007 Mar 05 15:57 UTC

Mon. March 5th, 2008

>> "It appears to me that the dates are one day off.
>>  For example, there are postings there today marked
>>  3-5-2007, even though today is 3-4 2007."

This problem has popped up again.

A couple of people have contacted me to report that the time & date stamp on
posts to our forums appear up to 24 ahead of what one might expect them to be.

While, we've run into this problem before and been able to fix it pretty
quickly, this time its trickier. Due to a change in how we've structured our
site, its harder (but not impossible) to keep track of all the various time
zones that are participants are in. We will soon have forums in New Zealand,
the UK, and the United States.

We are planning to address this problem. BUT - the fix is going to take a
significant amount of work, so I'm asking for your patience on this one.

As a short term solution, we might change the display for recent posts to
something like:

   posted 3 hours ago
   posted 2 days ago

Instead of indicating the exact date and time it was posted. Once posts are
over 7 days old, we could use the DATE stamp and it would be less confusing to
people.

How big of a deal is this to participants?

Any comments?

Thanks,

Tim Erickson
E-Democracy.Org