Lithium time machine or when was a solution accepted…

[GerdW]

Hi,

today I noticed some strange things with accepted solutions:

(not logged in into the forum, UnitedStates chosen as location)

(logged in, UnitedStates chosen as location, but formatting of timestamps set as DD-MM-YYYY in my preferences)

Conclusion:

- solution was already accepted before the answer was given - and even before the question was written! Really???

- when logged in the "accepted by … at …" doesn't respect my timestamp formatting preferences of DD-MM-YYYY…

- when logged in the message timestamps are adjusted to my location, but not the accepted timestamp…

I'm used to Lithium not being able to allow 24h time formats, but now they seem to screw up timestamps at all…

[Matt_McLaughlin]

Hi Gerd,

Thanks for reporting and documenting this. I can definitely see why this caused confusion.

I did some additional testing and it appears that the timestamp applied to when a solution was accepted always defaults to the same timezone (UTC -8) rather than user the user-selected preference.

We'll see whether this is something we can change with a setting or will need a fix.

Thanks again,

[RavensFan]

Good catch Gerd.  I had noticed that oddity too.

I really think this is a new thing.  I don't remember the times being wrong in the past.  And if they were wrong, I would have expected them to be UTC or Central time (for Austin).  Certainly not Pacific time.

[GerdW]

Hi Matt,

something has changed in the last night:

Still time machine, but the other way around!

Edit: my fault, I was fooled by that damned AM/PM. When does Lithium enable 24h time formats?

[RavensFan]

Here is my screenshot of that same message.  It looks like it was accepted as a solution about 2 hours 40 minutes before i wrote it.

[Wolfgang]

I seem to have found another case of a time machine - typically posts are arranged chronologically, right? If you follow this link you will find an old post from January 2010 with several replies from the same year, but then two comments from 2017, and then three more posts from 2010....

Maybe it's not a time machine issue but a sorting issue, in any case I find it quite confusing.

[LiliMcDonald]

Wolfgang - do you happen to have "threaded" as your linear layout setting? If so, then if the user in 2017 clicked on "reply" to an earlier post within the topic, you can expect to see the post directly underneath the reply from 2010.

[Wolfgang]

you are so right and I am so stupid Sorry...