I wonder if anyone can tell me why when there are posts on CC forums the time are way off, for eg one might have posted 10 hrs ago and it comes up like 32 mins ago, why does this happen? I've always wondered why this is

Did you update your profile and select your time zone? For me here they are always in the correct time/date. Mine is based on EST.

Mine is set at CET, and I have the same problem as G'kar. I've mentioned this a couple of times before.

I did update my profile pic as you can see I'm not really G'Kar Scott, although I know I fooled you however I've just never brought this up before, but this quirk has always been with the forum about times. It doesn't really bother me, it's just strange.

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Yes, this is the perennial issue that Scott, with his straight face, always pretends he's never heard of!
I think we all realize by now that the time stamps on forum posts work just fine and are always correct where Scott is in Atlanta, i.e. in the EST zone (UTC-5). For all I know, it may even work correctly in the rest of the lower 48, in CST (UTC-6), MST (UTC-7) and PST (UTC-8).

In Europe - and in Africa, of course - the time stamps are all screwed up and show all kinds of funny things!
I personally don't really mind. I even find it quite entertaining to see posts time-stamped (e.g.) "43 minutes from now". At my age, it may even be a small but useful brain exercise to frequently have to figure out what the strange times really mean. In my case, in south-eastern Africa (UTC+2), the notation "xx minutes from now" always means "somewhere between six and seven hours ago" - and that is close enough for this oldie, who does not parse his days into nanosecond parcels!

I suspect that the error in the arithmetic, that really should be quite simple, may have something to do with the somewhat archaic, American (and British!) practice of re-starting the daily hour count at noon and calling it "PM". The real 'error', of course, is the practice of calling 30 minutes after 12-noon "12:30PM", instead of "00:30PM" as it logically should be! Same thing for the first 59 minutes after midnight... I suspect that this is a good part of the reason why all time stamps, in local time here, are always exactly 7 hours wrong! Well, that's my theory anyway, and I'm sticking to it!
I'm attaching three screenshots as documentation of what this page looks like when I change my time zone from Maputo/Africa (UTC+2) to Oslo/Europe (UTC+1) and to NY/Atlanta (UTC-5).

And in closing all this lengthy nonsense ( ), I can only quote Gary Trudeau's immortal words: "In an overworked and overstressed world, the individual’s right to waste time must be respected."

Forgot the attachments, - as usual...

It is weird, but I quite like the quirks also. It would seem a very easy thing to put right, after all if you put time on your web sites and do it correctly of course then it shows correctly wherever you are in the world, but as long as the time is right for Scott I'm happy it's great trying to work out the "32 mins from now" it already knows what your going to say

I would say that CC doesn't have their scripts setting our time zone correctly.

I think we can safely say that Eric