# Last Activity Date/Time

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-activity-date-time/515626>\
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**Created:** [October 29, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-activity-date-time/515626 "2009-10-29T16:42:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-activity-date-time/515626/1 "2009-10-29T16:42:12Z")

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I am curious to know the system criteria for displaying the last activity details, sometimes shown when clicking on a poster profile.

There seems to be no rhyme or reason for the presence or absence of this information.

Many thanks.

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-activity-date-time/515626/2 "2009-10-29T17:45:38Z")

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I have suspected something irregular but never paid any attention because I didn’t care - much. I’ve had the ‘last visited’ time at the upper right change on me in the middle of a visit.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-activity-date-time/515626/3 "2010-10-08T15:29:44Z")

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It does seem to be irregular.

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**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-activity-date-time/515626/4 "2010-10-08T22:23:45Z")

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There have been recent threads relating to this. My “You last visited:” date and time is very sporadically quite wrong. I see not pattern.
