[Forum] time stamp randomly changes

[Jerry Hayes]

we've just setup a new forum w/vbulletin 4.2 hosted on godaddy.

we're tweaking it here and there but one issue that is very strange it the time stamp will alter sometimes on it's own free will. i can be posting at 3:30 in the afternoon and it will post like it was 6:30am and take over the thread if it's new.

one poster reported:

actual time was 10:44 AM CST
time stamp shows

09-08-2012,

03:44 AM

if you post in another thread the time will suddenly "correct itself".

users have put their timezone in their profile and hard to tell if it's "fixed" cause it's so random to begin with. i did it to my profile and it worked, then posted like 9 hours off, then started working again.

we do have templates on and have used the generic one several times in testing and it does it on the default skin also.

only mods would be 8 way plug in, addonchat and a different photo gallery. none of these should affect the time stamp.

any idea what could be causing this random glitch?

[Lynne]

Have the user look to see if they are showing as logged in (upper right corner of the forum) when they notice the strange time stamps.

[Jerry Hayes]

sure - i've added it to the support thread.

but i can reply to something else and everything "appears" as if i'm logged in. is there a known issue around this i can dig deeper into?

[Merjawy]

I don't know if it's related, but I recall having something like that back in vB 4.0.7 but it was more of date issue than time... It only happened twice as I recall.
Reply date changed to future

[Jerry Hayes]

ok, one of the admins is having the issue now. he posted in reply at 2:07 CST (he's in Arizona) and i see 7:07am.

if they were not logged in they couldn't see any forums also, we have that off so only registered and logged in people can see it.

this is at the bottom:
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:09 PM which is correct.

so when a user posts and it goes back in time 7 hours in this case, it makes a thread VERY hard to follow.

ok, GMT -5 didn't make sense cause i thought we set it to pacific time. i looked it up and it's set to GMT -8, or PST but the front shows GMT -5 on the site itself. i set the backend to be GMT -5 like the front is showing but this is just odd.

[Lynne]

Any .htaccess file in the forums directory or the root? Any modifications on the site? Is the mysql database on the same server your site is on?

[Jerry Hayes]

Any .htaccess file in the forums directory or the root? Any modifications on the site? Is the mysql database on the same server your site is on?

mods are slight and nothing drastic.

not sure about htaaccess.

the db is on another server and that's what gave me fits doing the install. i had to find their "localhost" path. i have a bad feeling that's not good but need to know now before we get too deep.

i'm so NOT a godaddy fan for how they do things.

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lynne -

talk to me about the db being remote. every other provider i've used has had the db "localhost" and it was fine. with godaddy it's on some god forsaken path and NOT local. that to me is a HUGE point of failure that's just stupid. we have off and on working graphics also.

what other issues would we see with a remote db?

this is a new setup so i'd rather move us or start over elsewhere depending on the answer. but in the research i did and my own history, a remote db is like a KICK ME sign on your back.

[Lynne]

To be honest, I can't say I'm too fond of GoDaddy hosting. But, what I was going to point out is that the database gets it's time from the mysql server. If something is off between the two, that could cause issues. You really should check for an .htaccess file because sometimes there are caching lines in there that just mess things up.

[Jerry Hayes]

To be honest, I can't say I'm too fond of GoDaddy hosting. But, what I was going to point out is that the database gets it's time from the mysql server. If something is off between the two, that could cause issues. You really should check for an .htaccess file because sometimes there are caching lines in there that just mess things up.

ok, we do have one but it seems set for a wordpress site we don't use.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

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the next question, with the db remote, how hard would it be to simply "move" all of this to another provider and end our multiple issues?

or is the.htacces file causing some of this?

i do want to know what it will take to move it, given our situation.

[Lynne]

Try removing the .htaccess (or just rename it) and see if that fixes the issue.

You can read about moving sites here - https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/moving_servers

[Jerry Hayes]

Try removing the .htaccess (or just rename it) and see if that fixes the issue.

You can read about moving sites here - https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/moving_servers

will do and thanks a ton for all your help.