Display of the time when a time is posted

[Denial]

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.)

 

[FreddyNurk]

An interesting point. Not sure I'd said anything about stirring tea...

I would have thought that as with most other modern forum platforms, there's an alternative means of referencing (or linking...) posts that would work just as well, same as the option to quote previous posts, something that wasn't possible in the old forum. Personally I'd rather a means to quote the actual post rather than having to reference by timestamps but that's just me.

 

[ShataCastings]

It took a long time for a new member like me to get to know the forum;

Unfortunately, after a few days of painstaking efforts to get to know the forum, it changed to new version

 

[IRstuff]

It took a long time for a new member like me to get to know the forum;

Unfortunately, after a few days of painstaking efforts to get to know the forum, it changed to new version

Such is life; we older members, on the other hand, have tons of stuff that we got used to and are desperately trying to figure out how to duplicate them in the new interface.

In any case, welcome aboard!!

 

[georgeverghese]

The former option is possible - click on your name at the top right, and choose the preference time zone in one of the options presented there. I've got it set for Sydney time now - I havent seen any discrepancies so far.
Great to see an engineering mathematician on E -Tips

 

[ShataCastings]

Such is life; we older members, on the other hand, have tons of stuff that we got used to and are desperately trying to figure out how to duplicate them in the new interface.

In any case, welcome aboard!!

Now we are the "same"

 

[IRstuff]

Sure, it's like equal, but different

 

[SwinnyGG]

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.

Great example of the engineering client condition of complaining that a bad tool was removed because you've gotten used to using the wrong tool.

In the old forum, quoting was laborious, so you got used to using references to posts.

In the new forum, quoting takes one click. Use quotes. The added benefit is that someone scanning your thread who sees your comment about FredNurk's comment 528 comments ago doesn't have to scroll back up to find it. Use the quote and it's right there.

If you really can't adapt.. in the new format every comment in a thread has a number. So you could very easily refer to 'frednurk's comment in post number 11 of this thread' and it doesn't matter what time zone anyone is in.