# The Time is Out of Joint!

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**Created:** [April 29, 2000, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-time-is-out-of-joint/16583 "2000-04-29T15:37:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-time-is-out-of-joint/16583/1 "2000-04-29T15:37:11Z")

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In several of the threads, the posts are out of order - is this because of the option to adjust the time to your own time-zone, or is it just part of the transition to new software?

If this is caused by the time-zone adjustment, I think it should be disabled - I mean, sometimes it’s hard enough to follow some of our discussions; putting the replies out of order may be the coup de grace!

For a good example, see the circumcision thread in MPSIMS. AWB is listed on MPSIMS as the originator of the thread, but the first posting is by H8-toW8. And, later on, jaytini replies to Milossarian’s comment about wiping, before Milo makes it. (Given the subject matter of the particular thread, the mind reels!)

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-time-is-out-of-joint/16583/2 "2000-04-29T18:41:42Z")

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In the [Warning! Some threads are scrambled!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=21421) thread, JDavis (aka Jerry Davis, Information Systems Manager) says:

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> The new vBulletin software will take those 2029 posts and move them around. In fact, all posts are now ordered by time instead of by their actual posting order to the thread. I’ve set the clock incorrectly more than once. Never as aggregiously as a 29 year mistake but it’s been off by a full 24 hours before as well. Post order is going to be strange in some older threads. There is little we can do about it except understand that that is the case.