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Ask HN: Is HN experiencing some kind of timestamp corruption?
For example, this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42602062
Its timestamp is 2025-01-05, which is several days ago. But it's in the front page of mine, and it shows "12 hours ago".
- DamonHD 2y agoDoes your device have the correct time (and zone) set?
- raincole 2y agoI double checked and it does. And the timestamps of all the other submissions seem to be correct. Only that particular one is wrong. Plus I don't think the local time setting should affect the HN's ranking algorithm.
- DamonHD 2y agoThis may not apply to HN, but I wonder about sites that use JS in the page doing clever timgs with time and apparently ignore the possibility of (at least) skew between local time and time at the server. I remember doing sysadmin for a client with machines out in the field many timezones away showing apparently the right time, but with a bodged zone! Took me a while to understand what was going on! I think we probably fixed the issue properly after discussion!
- r721 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41090424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41090424