Bug Reporting Thread

This is interesting. A little while ago I posted a message in the thread "Organized Religion & personal Spirituality". Topic Index for Chiroptera indicates that I did write message #76. However, when I check that thread, my message is no where to be found, and message #76 was written by [Dan's clever alias]. Phatboy responded to that message, and, sure enough, Topic Index for Chiroptera indicates that replies for #76 await. Even though I didn't write #76. Even though I actually did write #76. Or something.No big deal, but those responsible for bugs and maintenance may find this interesting.

Yes, that is correct: I did write message #74. However, a little later (I did not note the time; Topic Index for Chiropter reports it as 12:19 pm) I responded to message #75 by Phatboy. I used the usual "reply to this specific message" button.{Added by Adminnemooseus - I also see the 12:19 pm at the index. At the topic page itself, I see 2:14 pm as the posting time of message 76. I've checked, and both Chiroptera and I are using eastern U.S. time zone values, so there shouldn't be any time value conflicts between what we each see.Message 76, at 12:19 pm, overwritten by message 76, at 2:14 pm?}This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 04-11-2005 05:22 PM

I just switched to GMT. I am currently on Central Daylight Time, which is 5 hours behind GMT, even though my clock says 2:25, the board is claiming 8:25 (a 6 hour difference). Perhaps the board thinks that GMT goes on daylight savings time, too?

I'm pretty sure that GMT is a colloquial expression for Universal Coordinated Time, which does not do "summer time/daylight savings time". I may be wrong, but if so we can just call it UTC (Universal Coordinated Time or is that Coordinated Universal Time?) instead of GMT. At any rate, I would suggest that since there is an international membership to this forum, maybe UTC should be the default setting (although I vote for calling it GMT).I just fixed this problem for myself: I just set my personal setting to 1 hour before what the board thinks is GMT. This just makes it another clock to reset when we go on/off DST.Anyway, sorry for suggesting that you add yet another thing to your to-do list.

I am writing this post.I will now log off......and immediately edit the post...This message has been edited by Chiroptera, 08-Oct-2005 09:20 PM...and log off again.While I am logged off, the time in which I posted this message is reported as 5:19 pm, which is Eastern Time, which is the default mode of this board.But while I am logged off, the time reported for the edit is recorded as 9:20 pm, which is GMT, which is what I have set in my preferences when I am logged in.In other words, when I am logged off, the board reports the time of posting in the default setting, but the time for the edit in the preference that I have set, even when the two are not the same.Is this just me, or does anyone else notice this?This message has been edited by Chiroptera, 08-Oct-2005 09:24 PM

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Once that text is created....

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Ah! *Thumps forehead* Of course! That blurb is included as text in the post!Then perhaps nwr's suggestion is a good one: perhaps the time zone (like "-1 GMT", which is what I have currently set) could be added to the time, like it is in my email headings.It's no big deal, of course. It's just that it defeats the purpose of putting a time stamp on the edit, since no one really has a good way of knowing which time zone the editor has set in her preferences.

And we want ice cream, too, Percy.

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Chiroptera mentioned that he was having problems.

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That was yesterday evening. I am pleased to report that I haven't had any problems today.

The italics are not being displayed in the title for me, either.Edited to add:
I'm using Firefox on Linux.This message has been edited by Chiroptera, 01-Nov-2005 04:05 PM

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Also note at that topic: The topic title is not breaking to continue on a second line. Instead it goes off-screen to the right, and requires scrolling to read.

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This isn't a problem for me; both thread title and message subtitles are properly wrapping onto a second line.What I do notice (and I think this might be Faith's problem as well) is when I have my time zone set toDisplay times in the time zone of your local computerno times or dates whatsoever are displayed.

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EvC Forum => All Forums => Science Forums => Miscellaneous Topics in Creation/Evolution => Kurt Wise - A YAC and an old earth evolutionist?

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Oh, that title. I keep my browser window wide enough that it didn't need a second line -- when I narrow my window, it doesn't wrap for me, either.

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It worked this time ??

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That's because I rewrote the post and resubmitted it.I don't know what happened the first time. The first time I hit a keyboard command (by mistake) that seemed to have the same effect as hitting the preview button. Then when I submitted it for real, my browser seemed to have hung up. I finally hit "stop", and then when I went to check "All Topics" (to see if it was submitted), I found the same problem as you.I then cleared cookies, cache, history, and everything (in case that was the problem), but it wasn't. Having cleared my history, I had to retype the message again and resubmit it, and it worked.A bug? Or just some random, unexplained hic-up due to supernatural forces?Added by edit:
Ha ha ha. "Missing link." Now I get it.Edited by Chiroptera, : No reason given.

I've recently notice something. When I first come to EvC, I have a logout button instead of the login button, even though I have not yet logged in. If I press the logout button, it claims to have logged me out, and I get the usual login button again, and the login button remains everytime I return to EvC until I finally exit Firefox.Then, after exiting Firefox and running Firefox again, I get the logout button again. Since I have my browser set to delete cookies when I exit, I suspect that this is a cookie problem.No big deal; just one extra mouse click if I want to login without responding to a message. But this may be of interest to someone.