Fool Zero
5th November 2006, 02:59 PM
Whenever I arrive here as "Guest", the time stamps on all the posts seem to be for some time zone in the general vicinity of India -- GMT +7 or something like that. That also used to be the default time zone when I was logged in.
It wasn't until recently that I found the option for setting my time zone to my local time. By that time, however, I'd been participating in some long threads. A post that I was responding to could be a few pages away so it seemed a good idea to identify it by its timestamp.
By now I have quite a few posts in place that refer to other posts by author and timestamp. So far all those timestamps are for the "default" time zone (GMT +7 or whatever). I'm wondering: Does anyone else even care if I include a timestamp when I refer to another post? I do, because it may occasionally help me find that post again later.
Are most other users setting their time zone to their local time or leaving it at the default?
If the default time zone turns out to be in general use here, is there any point in staying with it too, so that my timestamps will reflect what most users see? By the way -- is there an easy way to link to a post by its exact URL? When a post happens to be the last post in a topic, the "Last Post by" link will point to it and I can pick up the URL from there. Once there are other posts after it, though, is its URL still given anywhere?
It wasn't until recently that I found the option for setting my time zone to my local time. By that time, however, I'd been participating in some long threads. A post that I was responding to could be a few pages away so it seemed a good idea to identify it by its timestamp.
By now I have quite a few posts in place that refer to other posts by author and timestamp. So far all those timestamps are for the "default" time zone (GMT +7 or whatever). I'm wondering: Does anyone else even care if I include a timestamp when I refer to another post? I do, because it may occasionally help me find that post again later.
Are most other users setting their time zone to their local time or leaving it at the default?
If the default time zone turns out to be in general use here, is there any point in staying with it too, so that my timestamps will reflect what most users see? By the way -- is there an easy way to link to a post by its exact URL? When a post happens to be the last post in a topic, the "Last Post by" link will point to it and I can pick up the URL from there. Once there are other posts after it, though, is its URL still given anywhere?