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I believe I have found a slight error in Charles' recent updates to Flare. Among the new features is the ability to change the board time displayed to my own time zone, so of course I went right ahead and did it, changing the number in the box from 0 to 3. At the same time, I also changed the display for the dates. They had originally been set to be displayed as MMM dd, yyyy (ex: January 1, 2003), I changed it to MM-dd-yyyy (ex: 01-01-2003).
Now, these are the only things I changed. Now, when I come to Flare, all the times and dates are very very wrong. The times are still set to the old time of PST (-3 hours). The date, however, is completely gone, and is merely displayed as '3'. So right now, at 10:59pm EST, this post will be displayed as '7:59 PM 3'.
In other words, you have some explaining to do Charles...
If you're wondering, I'm using IE6 on WinXP Home.
Addition: I've also now realized, that in everyone's profile, the dates of registration and their birthdays are displayed as '12:00 PM'. I've found this to be displayed for everyone I click on.
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Charles Capps
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Thanks. This looks buggy - logging out, then back in SHOULD fix it...
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That appears to have fixed it. Thanks Chuckles.
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Charles, I also had to log out, then log back in before the changes took effect. (I'd tried reloading the front page, but the times remained the same.)
But because I'm currently running from Apple's new Safari browser (which is still in public beta and slightly buggy) I had to go in and directly delete all of my cookies in order to log out. I then quit the app, reopened it, and logged in.
Everything's running fine now. This is a great feature, and I'm glad it's finally come to UBB.classic!
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It's doing it again now. Everything worked fine before, but now that I've come back to Flare again, everything is back to the wrong time and the date being displayed as '3'. Please tell me I don't have to log out/in everytime I visit Flare...
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Tried that. As soon as I leave Flare and come back, the time is still 3 hours off, no dates, and there's that 3 again at the end.
And sig fixed. Blame whatever lyrics site I used.
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Charles, I figured I'd be helpful (seeing as how there aren't many other Mac users here) and try out the problem on all my browsers: OmniWeb 4.1.1 (latest version), Chimera Navigator 0.6.0 (December 20 build), and Internet Explorer 5.2.2 (latest version). In all three cases, logging out and then back in solved the problem, just like the others.
However, with Apple Safari I didn't have those 3's pop up -- I just had to log out and in for the time change to take effect at all. Not sure what the difference was, though.
Aside: There's a big CSS rendering bug in IE which screws up the background and shifts the content so the window has to scroll left to see everything. I've gotcha two screenshots (same page, for the second I just scrolled down for effect):
I never use IE anymore, so that's why I've never noticed this before; I've kept it around mainly for those rare cases where I want to compare browsers, or for those asinine sites that require IE for whatever reason.
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Aha! Yes. The same thing happens on the iMac at the Baron office at the uni, only the board is shifted up also.
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That is an IEMac thing that I'm ignoring... it has a LOT of parentoffset problems that, for instance, prevent it from working with the new OpenTopic/UBB.x UI. Similar problems can be recreated by using Gecko or IE6 to view this demo... pull down a menu and note where it comes out. %)
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Thanks! Now I can see when people have recently posted or not. Working out PST was annoying. And do you guys get Daylight Saving or something?? I though East Coast America was 17 hours behind East Coast Australia (non summer time). *shrug*
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