# Wrong Time Zone

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-time-zone/231669>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 28, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-time-zone/231669 "2004-02-28T22:11:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-time-zone/231669/1 "2004-02-28T22:11:54Z")

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Ok, so right now it’s 5:05 PM here in New York City, Eastern Time, US of A. I have my profile set to Eastern Time (for some reason the city of choice is Lima Peru) but the board thinks it’s 6:05 PM for me.

Is this cuz I’m caught in some weird space-time continuum type deal? Or maybe I got the wrong setting in my options?

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**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wrong-time-zone/231669/2 "2004-02-29T04:42:14Z")

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It’s because I wasn’t initially logged in, so the board figured I was in (I guess) Central Time (Chicago) but then when I did log in, it got the time right. At that moment, it was telling me I had last logged in at 6:00 PM and it was now 5:00 PM which were both sort of true, from it’s standpoint, I guess.

Crisis (and blame) averted!!