# Test post (nothing to see here, move right along)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [November 30, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068 "2001-11-30T03:16:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2001, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/1 "2001-11-30T03:16:27Z")
Test
Test
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### Author:  [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/2 "2001-11-30T03:45:20Z")
Test post here too.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2001, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/3 "2001-11-30T07:49:02Z")
[sym]f[/sym][sup]1[/sup]
[sym]y[/sym]x[sup]2[/sup] dx
[sub]0[/sub][sym]b[/sym]
[Edited by Arnold Winkelried on 11-30-2001 at 01:51 AM]
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2001, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/4 "2001-11-30T07:51:44Z")
😕
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### Author:  [@wolfstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfstu)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2001, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/5 "2001-11-30T17:39:41Z")
Say, how did **Arnold Winkelried** edit his post fifty-eight minutes before he posted it?
Just curious.
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/6 "2001-12-01T17:21:09Z")
Some sort of clock glitch in here somewhere, I saw something similar a few days ago.
Lemme show this to the tech guys again. Not a big deal, just weird.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2001, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/7 "2001-12-01T17:56:19Z")
I have a hunch on this one.
When one edits a post, one’s machine retrieves it and the software automatically adds in the “_[edited by \_\_\_ on \_\_\_ at **:** \_M]_” line. I _think_ that’s in the _local_ do-the-typing-and-post-it functionality, not in the plug-it-into-the-database server end of things.
This would indicate that **Arnold** posted at a date supplied by the _Reader_, then edited a few minutes later in a different time zone, and his local computer supplied the date and time for the “edited by” line.
Could be wrong on this, but that’s my guess.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/8 "2001-12-02T21:32:17Z")
I think the hunch is right, it has something to do with the 2-hour time difference between my location and the location for the server of the SDMB. (See the « **Time offset:** » field in your [profile](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=editprofile)).
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### Author:  [@pati12812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pati12812)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/9 "2001-12-02T22:46:31Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \*
> \*\*😕 \*\*
ok i need to know how to do all the cute faces…the only one’s i know are 🙂 & 😃
\*\*:confused
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### Author:  [@pati12812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pati12812)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2001, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/10 "2001-12-02T22:49:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by pati12812 \*
> \*\*
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> > [@](#):
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> > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \*
> > \*\*😕 \*\*
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> ok i need to know how to do all the cute faces…the only one’s i know are 🙂 & 😃
> \*\*:confused \*\*
\*\*😕
\*\*:mad:
HA! I figured out two more…
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2001, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/11 "2001-12-02T22:58:16Z")
The timestamp on the post is set by your timezone preferences, but the stamp on the edit is unaffected by your preferences. I see **Noodles** ’ post as 12:49 AM, and the edit as 1:51 AM. Since I’m in Montana (Mountain time), the post would be 1:49 Central time, and the edit two minutes later. A person in the eastern timezone would still see the edit as being 1:51 (Central time), while the post would be 2:49 (Eastern time), appearing to be 58 minutes later. **Noodles** ’ time zone isn’t relevant at all, except in so far as he sees his own post (which appears to him to have been edited over two hours after he made it).
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Quentin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Quentin)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/12 "2001-12-02T23:19:35Z")
Why try to use scientific mumbojumbo when Occams Razor says to accept the obvious simple explanation. Time travel.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post-nothing-to-see-here-move-right-along/96068/13 "2001-12-03T05:58:03Z")
What Chronos said, not what I said.