Time zones: Messages from the future!

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here, 😎

ShotgunSteve and I are both in Alaska timezone. We both appear to have our timezones set the same (GMT -9.0). Yet when he sends me a PM, it is always timestamped 4 hours into the future.

I double checked my timezone, and mine is definitely GMT -9.0. ShotgunSteve tells me that he is set for Alaska. So what's going on?

edit: when I look in the history, the times are all correct! Weird... I know they were from the future when I first opened them.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Have him PM you some winning lotto numbers 😉

Perhaps the PMs are not time-corrected, like the edits.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

<< Have him PM you some winning lotto numbers 😉 >>



Good idea. Or I could PM him the final score of the Super Bowl, and we can clean up in Vegas. 😀

This Edit is at 10:15 P.M. Alaska Standard Time. Just to see what the Time Stamp will be.

Well, that checks out O.K. Weird.

 

[Maetryx]

Hey ShotgunSteve, remember back when TV was offset an hour or two in Alaska? A person could actually find out the results of a game before it was televised here. Hell, elections are STILL this way, since we only have 3 electoral votes, and our late timezone always mean the thing is over while we're still on the way to the polls.

Anyway, here is a sample of the timestamp from a PM from ShotgunSteve: Date Posted: Tuesday January 08, 2002 11:26 PM . But it's only 9:33PM right now, and he sent that message two hours ago. Due to a separate but equal problem in Opera, sometimes I get the same PM over and over again. That's why I still have the 11:26PM on my screen. In the history section it correctly says the message arrived at 7:26PM.

 

[Maetryx]

What? You mods haven't solved this yet? It's been 5 hours! Oh wait. My bad. Just 1 hour.

 

[Jfur]

if it makes you feel any better we are even further displaced in the temporal comtinuum here in Hawaii (GMT -10) 🙂

 

[Maetryx]

Hey Jfur. That must suck for brokers! The stock market opens at 3:00AM for them, right?