# Incorrect Post Times

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incorrect-post-times/203035
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [September 22, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incorrect-post-times/203035 "2003-09-22T06:09:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incorrect-post-times/203035/1 "2003-09-22T06:09:41Z")

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Monday September 22, 2:18 A.M. (GMT - 5 hours EDT)

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### Author: ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incorrect-post-times/203035/2 "2003-09-22T06:11:36Z")

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Close enough. Last Saturday night at about 10:30 P.M. I started a thread that posted at ~ 4 A.M. the next day. Bug?

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### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incorrect-post-times/203035/3 "2003-09-22T18:50:55Z")

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My posts appear before I even think of them.

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### Author: ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incorrect-post-times/203035/4 "2003-09-23T01:19:14Z")

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I’ve noticed that my posts always appear to be timestamped as much as 15 minutes before I actually made them. Now, my computer clock isn’t the most accurate thing in the world (it once lost 12 hours on me, which **Spoz** thought was cool)… but when I make a post at 6:28 PM, and it’s timestamped at 6:12 PM (as happened on my last post)… there’s something gumming up the works, methinks.

Oh well… I haven’t had anything like what \*\*[eunoia/b] describes.

F\_X

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### Author: ![biqu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@biqu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biqu)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incorrect-post-times/203035/5 "2003-09-23T13:43:00Z")

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Several conjectures to explain the discrepancy between board time and standard time are suggested in [this thread from last August](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=203159).