Yes, it is "somebody's feature". Dates and times on this site mostly fall into two groups. Originally, nearly all of the times were reported in terms of the server's local time. A while back, enhancements were made to improve this situation. This enhancement lets you pick a real timezone (you used to be stuck with a offset from GMT) and a format for date/times to be displayed in.

Only some of the places where date/times are displayed have been updated to use this new feature. So you'll mostly see lots of times in a fixed format in terms of the server's local time and some times in a you-select format in a you-select time zone. So "tick tock" shows you both of these time displays that are common on the site.

At some point, most of the old time displays will be updated and the first entry will be removed from the "tick tock" nodelet.

This is why you should spend more time becoming familiar with the site before jumping to conclusions about how to improve upon it.

No one gets paid to work on this type of stuff for this site and all of those who do work on it have little spare time for it. Features of the inner design of the site make it difficult to delegate reprogramming tasks. We've put a lot of work into improving that situation and I'm starting to see signs that this work is starting to pay off.

If you have similar questions in the future, you might have more luck asking in the chatterbox (and check out a few of the many, many resources for helping new members adjust).

Sorry for the rough introduction. I hope you stick around long enough to get some real benefit out of the site.

                - tye

In reply to Re: double clock in tick tock (for a reason) by tye
in thread double clock in tick tock by parv

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