# Is Dougie\_Monty psychic?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dougie_monty-psychic/52585>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 31, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dougie_monty-psychic/52585 "2001-01-31T17:57:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dougie_monty-psychic/52585/1 "2001-01-31T17:57:03Z")

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In [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=12380) thread, **DM** seems to respond “I hope so too, **SC**.” or something to that effect. I can only guess that **SC** is **SqrlCub**. My question is that **SqrlCub’s** answer comes AFTER **DM** has already responded. About 8 hours after.

Am I just missing something (which is likely) or have the posts gotten reversed or what? Is the **SC** someone else, just coincidentally the same initials as **SqrlCub**?

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dougie_monty-psychic/52585/2 "2001-01-31T18:11:25Z")

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That’s an old thread you’ve been reading. Here’s what I believe happened. You’ve lost your mind.

No, seriously. That thread was created when we were using different software to run the board and I remember period of time when the server clock kept resetting, or adjusting itself. So, when we transferred the old posts to the new software, it placed them in their proper thread, but used the old (and in this case incorrect) timestamp to sequence them. So, if the clock was incorrect when a post was made, it got placed in the wrong sequence upon conversion.

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**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-dougie_monty-psychic/52585/3 "2001-01-31T18:19:55Z")

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Yeah, I saw that the original post dates were from back in '99. I thought that it may have something to do with the old software.

Thanks for the clarification.