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Did something funky happen to the timestamps in this thread? I could've sworn I was reading it last night (~12h ago)
by Retr0id 2y ago
Did something funky happen to the timestamps in this thread? I could've sworn I was reading it last night (~12h ago)
- dang 2y agoIt looks like we put the thread in HN's second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it got re-upped and given a random slot on the frontpage. The relativized timestamps are an artifact of the re-upping system. There are past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20timestamps%20re-up&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Sorry for the confusion! I know it's weird but the alternative turns out to be even more confusing and we've never figured out how to square that circle.
- skissane 2y agoI think dang did something manual to push it back to the frontpage, and that reset the timestamps on everyone’s existing comments… There is a comment here by me which says “2 hours ago”, I swear I wrote it longer ago than that - indeed, my threads page still says I wrote it 20 hours ago, so it is like part of the code knows when I really wrote it, another part now thinks I wrote it 18 hours later than I did…
- dang 2y agoYes, the relativized timestamps only show on /news (i.e. the frontpage) and /item pages. You can always see the original timestamps on other pages, like /submitted, /from, or (as you say) /threads. Edit: I checked the code and the actual list is: '(news item reply show ask active best over classic).