Time zones setting and thread reply sequence

Hello monks,

Can someone tell me whether the replies in a thread are sorted by local time or UTC.

Or are they just displayed in the order in which the server receives them.

If it is based on local time (which evidence seems to suggest, see my posting Re: Override Data Display Method), this is jolly unfair (as in jolly unfair old chap) to the Brits like me, and also a bit unfair to the Eastcoasters as well. Anyone from a more Westerly time zone can jump the queue - sorry, line.

This just isn't cricket, what?

--rinceWind

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Re: Time zones setting and thread reply sequence
by chipmunk (Parson) on Mar 09, 2002 at 16:18 UTC

I looked at the thread you referenced, and the nodes appear to me to be in the right order. The earlier nodes have lower node ids and earlier times.

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(crazyinsomniac: huh?) Re: Time zones setting and thread reply sequence
by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Mar 10, 2002 at 05:40 UTC

Let's see, the node_id of your thread, of your node, the one i'm replying to, is '150525', and the node_id of my node, this one, is '150673'. Timezones have nothing to do with it.

The timestamps are always stored in GMT, and timestamp you get to see reflects your timezone setting, so I see my node as being created on March 09, at 21:40, and your node, as on being created early this morning Mar 09, 2002 at 02:27.

I hope this clears things up.

update:

if you go to user settings, the "Note ordering:" option allows two settings, chronological, which means by order created, and the other is by XP points. I like the chronological one (node_id) so I can see who said what when (as xp don't speak much to me).

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