So, as per usual, I like to occasionally check the pulse on the community to make sure that people for the most part are happy and satisfied with the day-to-day operation of the site. For those of you who are new to the community, first, let me welcome you and explain how these work.
When I open the floor to the community, the intent is to provide a venue to discuss anything related to site operations, content, and anything along those lines. I actively review and comment on these posts, and if one issue pops up multiple times in comments, I generally run follow up articles to try and help address issues the community feels is important before someone decides to take rehash and form a spinoff. Feel free to leave whatever thoughts you want below.
In contrary to my usual posts, I don't have that much to say to this, so to both the community and editorial team's relief, I'll cut this off right here before it becomes Yet Another NCommander Novel.
~ NCommander
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 07 2016, @12:54PM
My #1 gripe is that this story was posted at 8:44am which is still almost an hour away. Other than that I have to agree with the AC first poster.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @01:17PM
Yeah, looks like it's giving ACs either EDT or one zone east of EST for some reason. Really should just show UTC to them cause trying to figure out someone's time zone correctly is a mug's game what with TOR, VPNs, and just downright inaccurate geolookup tables.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Refugee from beyond on Monday November 07 2016, @04:10PM
There is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/DateTimeFormat [mozilla.org] (JS) if you are into that soft of thing.
Instantly better soylentnews: replace background on article and comment titles with #973131.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @04:19PM
Nah, it's my personal mission in life to remove every last bit of js from the site without degrading site experience. NCommander or paulej72 might do it but then I'd just be forced to figure out how to do it in perl and remove that too.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 07 2016, @05:19PM
And it's my mission to put it back in with a userscript. Muahahahaha!
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @07:01PM
UPDATE users SET nickname = 'darth takyon' WHERE uid = 881;
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by chromas on Tuesday November 08 2016, @10:31AM
Darth Akyon.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Tuesday November 08 2016, @12:58AM
I believe the site defaults to EST if you don't have a timezone set. The default is whatever the AC account is set to; we'd have to edit the DB to change it. I suspect this would be an acceptable use of JavaScript and simply show times in UTC if JS is disabled.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday November 07 2016, @01:18PM
Is this something to do with not being logged in, or the very recent DST change, or what?
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @01:34PM
DST thing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 07 2016, @01:32PM
Okay, it's now set to UTC for ACs. No more DST nonsense.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.