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Old 08-18-2007
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Default Forum Time Fixed

After two of the most stressful and agonizing hours of my life, I've finally fixed the time issue on the forum. I've known of this issue/bug for a while now but never really had the time to attend to it until now.

The issue, for those not familiar, was that the forum was essentially 20-minutes fast. This didn't affect any functionality of the site, but when a user would post a message at 4:25, it would actually state 4:55. So really it was just a minor annoyance, but is now fixed.

This bug was fixed once before, but returned about a year later. I've fixed it so that it will not reoccur. The reason is reoccured was because the server time, while fixed once, was reset, and the server takes the time from the physical hardware clock by default. The physical hardware clock was never update the first time, but both are now in synch

The forum now correctly displays the correct time, and posts won't incorrectly be shown as posted 20-minutes early, and the forum time is correct as well.

For those interested in a good laugh, check out the Time Test thread I made at one of my sites. I used that thread to test while I was fixing the servers... it's quite trippy. A ward of warning though, there is a lot of foul language from my frustration...
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