Hi all,

Hooray for our shiny new home, and cheers to Lurker Lounge for their help!

Griselda, two minor things, *way* down your list of things to do. I am impressed that you are making the effort to convert postings across.

My password went away in the changeover from the Lurker Lounge, it could well be that that was the most sensible way to handle things (ie, there was no way for you to conserve current passwords, you had to force a password reset). From my point of view I *used* to have exactly the same username and password on both LL and Realms Beyond, but it went away?

The current time quoted appears to be 11 hours ahead (or maybe 13 hours behind) what it should be. This is after I set my correct local timezone (NZ daylight time, GMT+13, and doesn't THAT exercise a few bugs).

Now I just need to amend my Imperium 7 report a bit for vB code...

Cheers,
Factoid.

PS - I can't tell from one post what day it is! My message was posted Thursday 14th October at 10:32(-ish) GMT+13, and comes out as "posted today at 21:32 GMT +13", so I have to wait a couple of days to get a full date stamp on the posting.

I care about getting the clock right because having a wrong clock timestamping postings (or touching anything system- or database-related) is really icky. If the clock needs to be set forward 13 hours that is not too bad, but setting a clock back 11 hours and having overlapping timestamps for those 11 hours is just nasty. I hope I'm wrong about all of this.

PPS - The clock is (hopefully only) seven minutes out, and the timezone settings in either vBulletin or at system level are wrong/bugged/broken. If it is a *nix box I would suggest "man timezone" and "man ntpd" or "man timed" if you must. I also suggest you get local expertise, don't rely on random postings from people you don't know.

Hello! I hope you'll take time to browse over the the General Forum as well, as there's been some similar discussion going on over there (plus, you may just meet some people who you may end up playing in a future game!).

The database move was mostly automated. It took some effort to figure out how to make the process work, but most of the actual conversion was done by a vBulletin importer script. So, I didn't have too much control over what data could be imported, and what was discarded (like the passwords). In fact, the password reset was somewhat of a surprise to me- mostly because so much of the other data had been saved. Because we had been using a modified version of Invision Board, I think we're lucky that we didn't lose more.

You *can* manually set your password to something that you prefer, by the way. Click on "user CP" on the top toolbar, then "edit email and password" on the menu that will be on your left.

I'm still not sure what the problem is with the time, and how much of it is a server issue vs. a software issue. For now, I set the timestamps to include the specific day, and not just "today", "yesterday", etc. until we get it figured out. I've also fiddled with a few other settings, so I'll see how closely the time stamp on my post matches the time it actually is here.

I don't have direct access to the server, but I have been talking to our host about it, and hopefully between the two of us we can figure something out.

Thanks for the feedback. The work week once again hit lick a ton of bricks but is starting to level out again.

-Griselda

Hi Griselda,

Thanks for the reply and gentle, polite hints. I did indeed reset my password to what I thought it always was, as I couldn't sign in.

Good luck getting times synchronised. I've spent years in the past dealing with multiple time zones (and slaving boxes to NTP sources), it is a small but steepish learning curve configuring things but SO much better after that when everything is automated. I would hope it would take your host's tech support about thirty seconds to check what the system thinks the local time and timezone are and compare that to what they should be. I have in the past provided both competent *and* incompetent tech support (competency defined as knowing what on earth I am talking about), so my expectations are very neutral.

Cheers,
Factoid.