I'm curious about the time stamps on posts

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Online John Corbett

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I'm curious about the time stamps on posts
« on: March 28, 2026, 02:21:33 PM »
It appears to me that the time stamps for the posts are currently 4 hours ahead of where I am which is on Eastern Daylight Time. My guess is that the time stamp is Greenwich Mean Time which I am going to guess doesn't adjust for daylight savings time. The UK is normally 5 hours ahead of US Eastern time so when the US is on daylight time, it would be 4 hours behind GMT. Am I correct in my analysis.

Online Charles Collins

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Re: I'm curious about the time stamps on posts
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2026, 10:29:36 AM »
I believe you are correct. Greenwich Mean Time remains the same, but the UK does change to British Summer Time similar to how it is done in most of the U.S. (daylight savings time). If I remember correctly, I do believe there is a way to set your profile on this site to the time zone you are in (instead of leaving it on GMT). That should make it easier for you to relate to the time stamps. I haven’t bothered to do that myself yet though.

Online John Corbett

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Re: I'm curious about the time stamps on posts
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 04:28:36 PM »
Just to update this, the time stamps now appear to be 5 hours ahead of US Eastern time. I started this thread on March 28 which is one day before the UK went on British Summer Time, the UK's equivalent of Daylight Savings Time. That tells me that the time stamps are on British time, not Greenwich Mean Time which does not change when the UK goes on BST. There is about a two week difference between US Daylight Savings Time and BST so that is why at the time this thread was started, there was only a 4 hour difference instead of the usual five.  If anybody really cares.
« Last Edit: Yesterday at 04:54:01 PM by John Corbett »