IMPORTANT: Expect some funky behavior for an hour after clocks change tonight.

[Skinner]

As you probably know, tonight is the end of daylight savings time. At 2am ET, the clocks will change back to 1am. Here on DU, that means there is going to be an hour of odd behavior. Basically, our software will think that we are going through the same hour twice.

Timestamps on messages posted during the hour after clocks change will show an "older" time than some of the messages posted in the hour before clocks change. So posts aren't going to kick all the way to the top of forums for that hour.

We apologize for the inconvenience. It will sort itself out relatively quickly.

Skinner
DU Admin

[Skittles]

1. here in the IT world we call it "overwriting data"

which is why we let all systems sit in reset for an hour before bringing them back up :D

[RetroLounge]

2. How will this be affected by Y2K?

:hide:

RL

[cliffordu]

6. Y2K??? Again???? oH!!! 11 nOES!!!!!!111!!

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. funky behavior on DU?

you are kidding!

[dbmk]

9. Thats only until they invent the smell emulator, though.

[quakerboy]

4. sounds fun.

thanks for the warning.

[RagAss]

5. So we can hear about things an hour before they actually happen ! Excellent !

[BlooInBloo]

7. Actually, I had no idea when that was. My clocks all do it automatically - lol!

[WheelWalker]

8. This thread has high funk value.

[tularetom]

10. I don't give a rats ass about tonight. What about Tuesday?

What can we expect then? have you dismantled the Grovelbot and bastardized him for parts to fix them servers?

[MarthaMyDear]

11. Thanks for the heads-up! :)

[Berry Cool]

12. "Odd behavior" on DU for ONLY an hour?

That would set a new record for brevity.

Oh...you're talking about the technology.

Never mind. :blush:

[RNdaSilva]

26. .

[dgibby]

13. Oh noes!!!11!! That's HUGH!!111 Is it going to emulate itself? I'm series!!!

:hide:

[FLyellowdog]

14. Sounds like Time Suppression to me.

[PBS Poll-435]

15. Groundhog Hour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hGlYT38DZY

[Jersey Devil]

16. Good thing most of us will be drunk by then and won't even notice

LOL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. Thanks for the heads-up!

The time change in either direction always seems a bit odd here...

It takes the board awhile to get sorted out...

:kick:

[Wednesdays]

18. I always loved time travel

Can they do it so that instead of just one hour, we could set the clocks back to November 6, 2000? Or ahead to January 20, 2009?
:shrug:

[jazzjunkysue]

19. Is this the Evil Spock episode?

The goatee kills me.

[proud patriot]

20. k got it

:hi: thanks for the heads up

[Dem2theMax]

21. Kicking so others won't miss it.

Thanks for all of your hard work, Skinner. I hope you have one hell of a hangover on Wednesday morning. (Along with the rest of DU!)

:yourock:


:kick:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. Looks like it's already started!

Here in California, it's 10:10 PM...

The time stamp on DU says 11:10 PM...

Weird!

[PBS Poll-435]

And it says that you posted that at 1:11 AM!

:crazy:

:)

[Wednesdays]

23. Weird is right...

Isn't it supposed to be "fall back"?

[Hutzpa]

24. I'm off to bed

hopefully things would have sort itself out in the morning.

Peace out !!!

GOBAMA!!!

:hi:

[davidpdx]

25. As long as we are ready for the "great crash" that's going to

occur here on DU on Tuesday when everyone tries to log on and post at the same time. The servers are going to need to be replaced Wednesday morning if it gets as busy as we think it will.

[Omnibus]

27. Funky behavior at 2:00 AM? Typical night at my place. n/t

[orleans]

28. makes me want to say AH-HA! but...? i ain't got nuthin to ah-ha about. n/t

[RichardRay]

29. And just how am I supposed to determine the difference between

the upcoming 'funky behavior' due to the time change, and the otherwise quite common 'funky behavior' that pervades DU most nights about that time?


:kick:

[DainBramaged]

30. Like a hamster dance?

[Hope And Change]

31. K & R!

[Starry Messenger]

32. But is it funkytown?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUm6TCbEK0g

I'm dating myself here. :)

[muriel_volestrangler]

33. Meh - you ought to see what happened to people with GMT set as our time zone

This happened at 2am GMT (ie 10pm EDT, 9PM EST) - posts had been showing on my screen with the proper time stamp, and then post timestamps went back an hour, so the forum still looks like this:



Now, our clocks changed last week - so no-one should have been making any adjustment to any clock at that moment. Everything appears in the true order - it's just that there's a 4 hour period (they later leap from 4:59am to 6:01am) where the timestamps are an hour earlier than they really were.