With the old Eng-Tips, all times generated by "the system" were displayed in UTC. Now (I think) they are all displayed in the viewer's time-zone. This has some advantages, but it also has some disadvantages. In an active thread, some contributors can have a large number of different posts. In such circumstances, when I wanted to comment on one of those posts I would specify it by the time it was made. An example: "FredNurk in his post of 26Oct24@19:35 has overlooked the importance of always stirring one's tea anticlockwise".
Under the new approach to times this approach is no longer available, because the timestamp on FredNurk's post will change according to the time-zone of the the person looking at it.
Perhaps all users could be given a set-up option to have the times in timestamps shown to them in either UTC or their local timezone. (The latter could be the default, but I would certainly opt for the former.)
Under the new approach to times this approach is no longer available, because the timestamp on FredNurk's post will change according to the time-zone of the the person looking at it.
Perhaps all users could be given a set-up option to have the times in timestamps shown to them in either UTC or their local timezone. (The latter could be the default, but I would certainly opt for the former.)