You children are like SO going to get in trouble.... :rolleyes:
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You children are like SO going to get in trouble.... :rolleyes:
This is supposed to be a serious thread posted by . :cool:
Its now 34 minutes from the last posting.
That statement is easier to comprehend!
By the way Ozwinner has not come up with one of his one liners?
Is he having tourble with this time thing?
'cause I do so :pQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
Well we're not telling you:pQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
Doh !:DQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
Looks like there are no major objections apart from Silent stirring rather than objecting so is the vote carried ?
HH.
But who cares? Time is relative and I have little time for my relatives.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Pommie Bloke
My father in law left Melbourne yesterday after living with us for 10 days. That was relatively unpleasent.Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
Time is an elephant.
:D so thats why you have been quiet on here, ya dad in law banned you.......:D :D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Grunt
Al :p
Lovely daughter tho Grunt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grunt
Back to the time issue.....
I have enough good stuff happening in my life right now :rolleyes: that I really dont know what day it is, never mind what hour it is, I dont want to look at a time/hour/day thing and have to work out what/where/when?
Just give me the time elasped.........please.
Al :o
Wot Al said. Not all of us have clocks & calendars regulating every aspect of our lives. Some of us are quite content to leave it at "day," "night," "cold season" and "hot season." If I need more precision I use "early in the...", "late in the..." or "middle of the..." :p
When I see "X Y ago" I know at a glance it's relatively recent. Half the time, when asked my age I gotta ask what year it is first and do the maths. :o
Needing to check actual date/time to know whether a post is current or archive fodder is a right PITA.
At last! Some sort of a rationale. Tenuous at best, but at least it has some logic to it. Well done, Skewy, it has taken, let's see, 12 hours? to get that answer. Damn, if I had elapsed time instead of a date, I could have worked that out so much more easily. :rolleyes:
But, does that mean if a post you haven't read is older than, what? 2 days? A week? 5 minutes? it's archive fodder? What if it is really, really interesting? How will you know unless you read it? And then, it wont matter how old it is, it is either good stuff or archive fodder, by which time you've already read it and it's too late.
Jeez, I dunno, I just can't make any sense out of all this. Think I need another glass...
So why do we still have date and time ? :confused:
HH.
Because all right-minded people know it's the right way to go ;)
Is that right-minded in the de bono sense?:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
HH.
Right-minded, not right-brained :p
:D Touche
HH.
If you haven't read a news item until you get your fish and chips wraped in an old newspaper, then it is still news when you read it - days, weeks or months later. Information is never archive fodder.Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
On the other hand, how many have noticed that if you come onto the forum as a guest the posting time is shown as GMT +11 however if you log in then in my case (Eastern Standard Time) it is GMT +10. Therefore, as a guest HappyHammer's last posting was at 1.49pm and not 12.49pm. Does this mean that our UK friends (GMT) think that we sit up until 4.00am so that they can read our post at 6.00pm the previous day if they log on but only 3.00am if they are a guest.
Elapsed time makes sense:cool:. We all can see at a glance how long ago the post was actually submitted without wasting our time clock watching:mad: .
To those forumites in the UK, I think it is now 5.20am your time:confused: . Have a nice day:D
Now hang on a minute, in your opening paragraph, you say that "it is still news when you read it - days, weeks or months later", which implies that you don't think it is important how old a topic is. Then you go on to suggest in your second last paragraph that it is important to know how long ago the post was made. You can't have it both ways, so which is it? C'mon, you elapsed time people don't have a lot of logic to your arguments ;)
I, on the other hand, have a lot of arguments to my logic. :p
take no notice of the sh!tstiring rantings and ravings of Silent and just hurry up and go back to elapsed time;)
I'm with you Darren. That's why I voted for the timestamp. :)
I like the precision of it.
Trouble is, we timestamp people are heavily outnumbered it would appear. :(
Yes, we are outnumbered by those misguided people suffering from Con the Fruiterer syndrome.Quote:
Originally Posted by craigb
Doesn't matter it was a couple of minutes ago or a couple of hours ago or a couple of days ago.:p Never precise, never correct.:p
Peter.
Similar reason why John Howard is still Prime Minister I suppose :rolleyes:
:D
WB,Quote:
Originally Posted by Wood Borer
I agree with you.
It is the Weekend tomorrow......Isn't it:confused: :rolleyes:
:p
Don't dispair Lignum, haven't you noticed that this poll is open until 21st Sep 2006 at 06.46AM, but I'm not sure whether that is GMT +10 or GMT +11:confused: .Quote:
Originally Posted by Lignum
Because he keeps getting voted in....:rolleyes: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
HH.
& we still have PB..... there is just no accounting for taste. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
,
Does this need to run to next Monday before it is changed?
HH.
Absolutely! There might be a late rush of reason :p
*cough* here???? :eek:
Because the blue line wins in those elections too?Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
;)
P
And here I thought it was because he was willing to do or say anything to stay in power.Quote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge
Nuh, 's'cos there is nobody else willing to do or say anything fullstop. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Grunt
Someone must think this poll is going to change things.
What gave you the idea this was a democracy. Nowhere does it say that. This is more your benevolent dictatorship, and the dictator likes the times as they are. So nah https://www.ubeaut.biz/smarty.gif
The times will stay as they are, mostly because there are many times when we need to get correct times and dates to keep the admin side straight, especially now with so many posts being made. I am spending around 3 - 4 hrs a day working in the background on the forums keeping them straight whilst the combined time the mods spend here keeping it nice for everyone is way much more than that.
For the information of all. The full blown time & date stamp has been used for most of the 7.5 years the forums have been on the net The elapsed time was only in use for about 10 mth off and on over a period of around 18 mth as a trial and although it may have seemed easier to figure out, in truth it was a bloody nuisance for admin purposes.
These things usually only get noticed when there is an update or something drastic happens like the major meltdown of a couple of weeks ago.
Cheers - Neil :)
Benevolent Dictator......... and the mug who has to try and figure out the dates and times when stuff happens, like when idiots shoot of their big mouths and we have to fend off law suits, etc. etc. etc.
All hail the Dictator.
You read it here, folks ;)Quote:
There might be a late rush of reason
Yay Neil!
:D
Is it possible to get the time in a format that we Queenslanders can understand then?Quote:
Originally Posted by ubeaut
Something like:-
"the big hand is on.......and the little hand......."
Cheers,
P
:D
Why bother to ask if you're not going to change it then?
Because we considered it but the long term ramifications out weigh any thing else.
Finally I am part of a minority group that gets preferential treatment!
Have both!!
Al :)