Re: Use of timezone setting

It's not intended to be used outside of your homenode (if you don't care to "reveal" your location, you might wanna reveal your timezone, which narrows it down from earth).

The Tick tock nodelet reflects the server time, so you have some idea of when nodes were created.

Yes, others have noticed this.

There is nothing to fix, since nothing is broken.

Where did you get the idea the timezone setting would have that kind of effect?

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Re: Re: Use of timezone setting by dpuu (Chaplain) on Jul 21, 2002 at 19:05 UTC
Where did I get the idea? Chalk it up to naive user expectation. The pages that I see are customised for my account (e.g. vote buttons, monk pictures, nodelets, etc.). So the script that generates pages knows the timestamps in server-time (or univeral time); and it knows (or has access to) my local time adjustment. Doing the adjustment while generating the page won't reveal my information to anyone else; so its not a privacy issue. I agree with the person who says its not a big deal; but if I was writing the scripts, my hubris would make me add these little details that add up to quality. --Dave.	[reply]
(tye)Re: Use of timezone setting by tye (Sage) on Jul 22, 2002 at 14:42 UTC
Well I disagree with podmaster. I consider the current situation a misfeature but I can't fix it until the server daemons are switched to UTC/GMT and I can't arrange for that until I have some free late-night time. I'll probably have some free late night time in a little more than a week from now so I'll start "fixing" this in a week or two. Who know how long before a fix can be deployed, however. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]