# Insomnia sucks! (Time coding)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-sucks-time-coding/143288>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 17, 2002, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-sucks-time-coding/143288 "2002-12-17T07:47:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-sucks-time-coding/143288/1 "2002-12-17T07:47:07Z")

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Well, I hurt my arm pretty bad and haven’t been working much for the last week and a half. But, I’m still collecting from some other finished jobs, so I’m only hurting physically.

But, without my regular get up, get out of bed, run a comb across my head… and work like the devil so I come home and actually feel like resting, I’m getting a little stir crazy.

Here’s a question: When I post on here and I see the time post, what time do you see? Mine? Or yours?

I mean, suppose I read a post from someone in California (I know, there ain’t no one in Cali, it’s all just a big conspiracy) who posted at 2:07 a.m., When I read it right away, am I gonna see 2:07 a.m.? Or 12:07 a.m. since I am in CST?

The life of a small snail depends on the answer

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-sucks-time-coding/143288/2 "2002-12-17T07:59:44Z")

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Well, the time on your post is 1:47. My local time is 1:04. It shows the time of the board server - central time.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-sucks-time-coding/143288/3 "2002-12-17T08:20:22Z")

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Oh, good idea.

My opening post time reads:

12-17-2002 01:47 AM  
What time zone is 43 minutes behind my CST?

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**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia-sucks-time-coding/143288/4 "2002-12-17T08:53:17Z")

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If you go into User CP options, you can set your timezone to however you want it. I see all posting times as GMT.