# Forum Display Date/Time Stamp problem **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 8, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-display-date-time-stamp-problem/107940 "2002-05-08T18:37:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-display-date-time-stamp-problem/107940/1 "2002-05-08T18:37:53Z")
Last night, just as I was heading off to bed, I posted one last response to the [Does the Church require Catholics to oppose the 1st Amendment?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113483) thread. It was just after 2:30 AM,my time (EDT). When I brought up the **Great Debates** Forum, this afternoon, I was surprised to see the last date/time stamp set at 12:02 AM, (CDT). Afraid that I would have to re-create whatever post I had cobbled together in the middle of the night, I opened the thread and scrolled to the bottom, where I found my post, stamped 01:39 AM. At first I figured that my browser simply had a cached version of the Forum Display page, but then I noticed that it had new posts, as well. I’ve gone in and out of the **GD** Forum page a few times, today, and the date/time stamp on that thread does not change. It is hardly the end of the world, of course, but I am wondering why the Forum Display is not picking up the actual last post. Is there anything I might have done to cause it? (_E.G._, logging off without waiting for a confirmation that I had posted after 10 minutes, or so?) Or is this simply one more issue with the gerbils? I have seen this happen before, but this is the first time I actually watched it happen to one of my posts when I knew that I was not imagining it. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-display-date-time-stamp-problem/107940/2 "2002-05-08T20:38:40Z")
I’m not clear on what problem you’re experiencing. Is it that the forum page not registering your post? If so, check [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=109424&perpage=50&highlight=reply&pagenumber=2). It happens. Is it just that the timestamp seems incongruent? Were you logged in when it seemed to have changed? I forget the specifics, but the default time zone is different when you’re logged and when you’re not. If something else is wrong, I dunno what the deal might be with that. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-display-date-time-stamp-problem/107940/3 "2002-05-09T00:22:27Z")
tomndebb, if I understand your post correctly, you are saying:[list=A][li]I made a post to a GD thread.[/li][li]My post is shown when I bring up the GD thread.[/li][li]However, the “Last Post” field in the forum thread display for GD does not show my post - it shows the previous post in the thread.[/list=A][/li]If this is indeed your question, then I think the answer lies in [this post in the FAQ - technical issues](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1946046#post1946046). ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-display-date-time-stamp-problem/107940/4 "2002-05-09T03:16:00Z")
Yeah. That was what I meant. When I read over the FAQ, I didn’t associate that exact phenomenon with what was posted in the FAQ. Basically, gremlins. I can live with that. I was just curious if any action of mine caused it–not that I can change much: I can hit submit or I can refrain.